Christine has served as the Republican Staff Director for the HVAC Subcommittee on Health since 2014. An Air Force Academy graduate, she served 20 years in the Air Force as a KC-135 Air Refueling Instructor Navigator and then as the first woman combat-qualified in the B-1B Bomber. After the military, she was the MLA for Sen. Elizabeth Dole, the Director of Govt. Affairs for the 2005 BRAC Commission, an Assistant Secretary at the VA, and the EVP for Govt. Affairs at Wounded Warrior Project.