Linda P. Johnson

Linda Kay Pennell Johnson was a computer analyst from Kannapolis, North Carolina who was elected a Republican member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, representing the state's 82nd district.
Johnson graduated from A.L. Brown High School, in Kannapolis, North Carolina, in 1963. She served on the Kannaspolis City Board of Education from 1992 to 2000. She was first elected to the House in 2000, defeating Len Sossamon, who had been appointed to finish Richard Lee Moore's term. She had multiple strokes while suffering from cancer, and died in office in February 2020.