Verna “Kathy” Shipp of Lubbock is a family nurse practitioner residing in Lubbock. She was faculty, for 10 years, at West Texas A&M University in the Family Nurse Practitioner Program, retiring in May 2023. She provides Women’s Health Care for
South Plains Public Health District clients. She represents APRN Practice on the Texas Board of Nursing since 2011 appointed by Governor Perry.

In January 2013 Governor Perry appointed Ms. Shipp, President of the Texas Board of Nursing. She has been reappointed for two more 6-year terms by Governor Abbott and continues to serve as President. She is a member of the American, Texas and South Plains Nurse Practitioner Associations and the American and Texas Nurse Associations. She represents Texas as a member of the National Council of
State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN). She has been the Chair of the NCSBN President’s Networking Group from 2017 to 2023. She was a past member of the Sigma Theta Tau National Honor Society of Nursing and the Texas Health Disparities Task Force.

She has been faculty at South Plains College, Levelland, Covenant/Methodist Hospital School of Nursing, Lubbock and Texas Tech University, Lubbock. She has mentored MSN, MSN/FNP and DNP nursing students. Ms. Shipp received a Family Nurse Practitioner certificate from West Texas A&M University in Canyon, a Master of Science in nursing from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Bachelor of Science Degree in nursing from West Texas State University.