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Linda Herren
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| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | Republican Party of Georgia |
| Role: | National Committeewoman |
| Location: | Georgia |
| Education: | Atlanta, Ga. |
| Website: | Official website |
Linda Herren was the national committeewoman for the Republican Party of Georgia. She is a certified registered nurse anesthetist in the Atlanta, Georgia metropolitan area.[1][2]
Career
Herren is a certified registered nurse anesthetist and previously served as a captain in the U.S. Army Reserve. Former Governor of Georgia Sonny Perdue (R) appointed Herren to the Georgia Board of Nursing in 2003, were she served as president through 2008.[2][3][4]
Politics
Herren has been involved in local and national Republican politics for more than 30 years. She served as a delegate from the Dekalb County Republican Party to the Republican Party of Georgia's (GAGOP) state convention from 1987 to 2012. She later served as first vice chair of the GAGOP from 1996 to 1999. The following year, Herren worked as the campaign manager for Republican nominee Sunny Warren's 2000 campaign for Georgia's 4th Congressional District.[3][4]
Herren was elected as the national committeewoman from the GAGOP to the Republican National Committee (RNC) in 2004. Herren has served on a number of committees during her time with the RNC, including the redistricting committee, the budget committee, the rules committee, and the platform committee. Herren was term-limited and did not seek re-election as the national committeewoman in 2016.[3][5]
In addition to the GAGOP, Herren is a member of the Central DeKalb Republican Women’s Club, the executive committee of the Dekalb County Republican Party, the Georgia Federation of Republican Women, and the National Federation of Republican Women.[3]
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
Herren was an RNC delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Georgia.[6] In the Georgia Republican primary election on March 1, 2016, Donald Trump won 42 delegates, Marco Rubio won 16, and Ted Cruz won 18. Ballotpedia was not able to identify which candidate Herren was bound by state party rules to support at the national convention. If you have information on how Georgia’s Republican delegates were allocated, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.[7]
Delegate rules
Delegates from Georgia to the Republican National Convention were elected at district conventions and the state convention in June 2016. Delegates from Georgia were "bound" to the candidate to whom they were allocated through the first round of voting at the national convention unless their candidate withdrew from the race after the state primary election—in which case Georgia state law required those delegates to be "unpledged" at the national convention.
Georgia primary results
- See also: Presidential election in Georgia, 2016
| Georgia Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
 Donald Trump |
38.8% | 502,994 | 42 | |
| Marco Rubio | 24.4% | 316,836 | 16 | |
| Ted Cruz | 23.6% | 305,847 | 18 | |
| John Kasich | 5.6% | 72,508 | 0 | |
| Ben Carson | 6.2% | 80,723 | 0 | |
| Jeb Bush | 0.6% | 7,686 | 0 | |
| Chris Christie | 0.1% | 1,486 | 0 | |
| Carly Fiorina | 0.1% | 1,146 | 0 | |
| Lindsey Graham | 0% | 428 | 0 | |
| Mike Huckabee | 0.2% | 2,625 | 0 | |
| George Pataki | 0% | 236 | 0 | |
| Rand Paul | 0.2% | 2,910 | 0 | |
| Rick Santorum | 0% | 539 | 0 | |
| Totals | 1,295,964 | 76 | ||
| Source: Georgia Secretary of State and CNN | ||||
Delegate allocation
Georgia had 76 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 42 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's 14 congressional districts). District-level delegates were allocated proportionally; the highest vote-getter in a congressional district received two of that district's delegates, and the second highest vote-getter received the remaining delegate. If a candidate won more than 50 percent of the vote in a given district, he or she won all three of that district's delegates.[8][9]
Of the remaining 34 delegates, 31 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 20 percent of the statewide vote in order to be eligible to win any of Georgia's at-large delegates. If a candidate won more than 50 percent of the statewide vote, he or she received all of the state's at-large delegates. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention.[8][9]
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Footnotes
- ↑ Republican National Committee, "Georgia Leadership," accessed April 1, 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Pulse, "Above board," April 20, 2008
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Republican National Committee, "Linda Herren," accessed April 21, 2016
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Rockdale Citizen, "RNC member Herren speaks to local GOP," July 13, 2011
- ↑ GeorgiaPol.com, "Race for national delegates/alternates isn’t the only election for the GAGOP state convention," April 8, 2016
- ↑ AJC, "Ted Cruz backers lose bid to pack Georgia GOP delegate slate," June 4, 2016
- ↑ To build our list of the state and territorial delegations to the 2016 Republican National Convention, Ballotpedia relied primarily upon official lists provided by state and territorial Republican parties, email exchanges and phone interviews with state party officials, official lists provided by state governments, and, in some cases, unofficial lists compiled by local media outlets. When possible, we included what type of delegate the delegate is (at-large, district-level, or RNC) and which candidate they were bound by state and national party bylaws to support at the convention. For most delegations, Ballotpedia was able to track down all of this information. For delegations where we were not able to track down this information or were only able to track down partial lists, we included this note. If you have additional information on this state's delegation, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
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