Linda Koop
| Linda Lee Fielding Koop | |
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| Texas State Representative from District 102 (Dallas County) | |
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Assumed office January 13, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Stefani Carter |
| Member of the Dallas City Council | |
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In office 2005–2013 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
June 21, 1950 Dallas, Texas, USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Myron Lee Koop (married October 20, 1973) |
| Children |
Jason Michael Koop |
| Residence | Dallas, Texas |
| Alma mater |
Hillcrest High School (Dallas) University of Texas at Dallas |
| Occupation | Businesswoman |
Jason Michael Koop
Hillcrest High School (Dallas)
Linda Lee Fielding Koop (born June 21, 1950) is a former eight-year member of the Dallas City Council and a Republican state representative from Dallas County, Texas.
Koop graduated c. 1968 from Hillcrest High School in Dallas. She obtained a master's degree from the School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. Married since 1973 to Myron Lee Koop (born 1950), the couple has two sons, Jason Michael Koop (born 1979) and Jonathan D. Koop (born 1982).
Koop is an outspoken defender of free enterprise. Her grandfather in 1929 established National Shoes in Dallas, the oldest family-owned business in the city. Four generations of her family worked there prior to its closure in the 1990s. She was formerly employed by the North Central Texas Council of Governments, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, and the North Dallas Chamber of Commerce.
In the March 4, 2014 Republican primary for House District 102, Koop led the incumbent Stefani Carter, an African American, by 163 votes. She received 3,646 votes (34.7 percent) to Carter's 3,483 (33.2 percent). Two other candidates held another critical 32 percent of the ballots cast.
One of the two eliminated candidates, Samuel Brown, endorsed Koop over Carter, who had first announced her candidacy for the Texas Railroad Commission but then decided to run for a third term in the House. Brown claimed that Carter told him her primary interest in running again was to collect a state pension which she could receive after two more terms in the state House, a contention Carter dismissed out of hand. In her runoff election campaign, Koop challenged Carter on the "trust" issue.
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