About Linda
LINDA HALDERMAN, MD, FACS
Dr. Linda Halderman, a board-certified General Surgeon who specializes in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, brings a unique blend of public policy experience and real world experience to the campaign for the 29th Assembly seat. As a Surgeon and as a Senior Policy Advisor to the State Senate, Linda has seen first hand how our broken state government has harmed working families, deepened our budget crisis, and threatens our economic future.
With a state budget deficit estimated at nearly $20 billion and expected to grow larger over the next year, Linda Halderman is committed to fight for reforms to our broken budget system and for conservative economic policies designed to restore our economy and create jobs for working families.
Fluent in Spanish, Linda served rural south Fresno County’s uninsured and underinsured women with breast cancer before underpayment by Medi-Cal and the state’s breast cancer programs for uninsured women contributed to her practice’s financial demise.
Committed to fixing problems like the ones she experienced in her practice, Linda sought a position as the Senior Policy Advisor to Senator Sam Aanestad, an Oral Surgeon and a member of the California State Senate Health Committee. Dr. Halderman continues to practice as a General and Trauma Surgeon in underserved rural areas of California. After the 2009 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the South Pacific, Dr. Halderman provided medical relief for three months to the U.S. territory of American Samoa.
Linda graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in English from the University of Illinois. She is a published author with over 50 articles and essays that have appeared in local, national and international publications, including such prestigious websites as National Review Online, The American Thinker and Victor Davis Hanson’s Private Papers. She is a frequent guest on Fresno radio and television programs, and has appeared on Fox News's "America's Newsroom.”
Her leadership opposing government-controlled healthcare has made her a sought out expert on the issue of providing medical services to those with limited access to modern healthcare. She will remain a pragmatic voice of reason in the debate on reforming the funding and delivery of healthcare in the United States.