Terri Yarbrough Green

Green was born in El Paso and adopted at birth, according to her campaign website, by a World War II Navy veteran and his wife; she describes herself as the daughter of a high school football coach and athletic director.[7][3][1] She graduated from Burges High School and earned a bachelor's degree from Baylor University in 1977, and also attended the University of Texas at Arlington. She received a medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio.[1][3][7]

Green is a board-certified pathologist and laboratory medical director who, her campaign says, has served rural hospitals. She moved to Northeast Arkansas in 1988; her Ballotpedia profile calls her semi-retired, and Talk Business & Politics reported in 2026 that she had recently retired.[7][3][1][2] She has been active with the Greene County Democratic Party and has worked on voter registration, according to Talk Business & Politics, which lists her as a Democrat from Paragould.[2][8] Green was running for office for the first time. The Democratic primary was canceled, and she advanced to the general election without appearing on the ballot.[1][2] She received 31% of the vote to Rick Crawford's 65.5%, according to unofficial results reported by NBC News.[4]