Martha Zoller Bio, FOX 5 Atlanta, Age, Height, Education, Family, Husband, Children and Career

Martha Zoller Biography

Martha Mitchell Zoller is a columnist, media personality, author and a former Republican candidate for the United States House of Representatives in 2012 currently working as a Georgia gang panelist and contributor for FOX 5 Atlanta.

Zoller Career

Zoller is a force on the conservative political landscape and hosts “The Martha Zoller Show” on heritage station WDUN for Jacobs Media in Gainesville, Georgia coming full circle to the place where it all began. In 1979 she worked in the corporate world, following her graduation with a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from University of Georgia prestigious Grady School of Journalism. Zoller is a wife, mother and a grandmother, stayed at home and juggled children and working priorities. Furthermore, she knows there is no glass ceiling and women can have it all, just not at the same time. In addition, Zoller is a lifelong learner who completed her MA in Political Science in 2021 at the University of Georgia’s School of Politics and International Affairs. Her thesis was on women’s electoral success in the GOP.

She was the State Director of Field Offices for Governor Brian Kemp until June 2019. From 2014 until 2018, Zoller worked for Sen. David Perdue in senior staff positions and then joined the Brian Kemp for Governor campaign in a senior outreach position in 2018. In 2020, she chaired the Super PAC Georgia United Victory (GUV) and does regular consulting with candidates across the conservative spectrum.

Martha Zoller FOX 5 Atlanta

In September of 2011, Zoller announced her candidacy for Congress in Georgia’s new 9th Congressional District. She left the airwaves on May 11, 2012, to campaign full time. She made it to the runoff in that race, but did not win the runoff. Her profile was raised substantially in this race and she used this to further conservative causes. She helped Mitt Romney in during the presidential election, attempted to increase the Republican majority in the House of Representatives and to turn around the United States Senate. Zoller joined Real PAC as a grassroots consultant in September, 2012 through February, 2013.

She is known best for her media career, but was also her husband’s primary care medical practice. In addition, Zoller was a stay at home mom before starting in radio and was a retail buyer, managing about sixty employees and a budget of $10 million a year after college.

Furthermore, she began her talk radio career in 1994 after being a regular caller to WDUN AM 550. Her first call to the station was prompted by Hillary Clinton’s lament that “she could have stayed at home and baked cookies.” Zoller also hosted at WDUN AM 550 until 2009 and from 2008 to 2011 and was syndicated on GNN. In 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011, 2012, 2014, Zoller was named to the “Heavy Hundred” Talk Show Hosts in America by Talkers Magazine. For 2005, 2006 and 2007, she was named to James magazine’s list of Most Influential Georgians and in 2005 Georgia Trend magazine named her as one of Georgia’s most influential members of the media.

Martha Zoller Early Life

Zoller is a regular panelist on Fox 5 Atlanta’s The Georgia Gang, has been seen on CNN, FNC and MSNBC. She also appears on ABC’s World News Tonight, The Newshour on PBS and NBC’s The Today Show. In addition, she has written for Human Events Online, Pajamas Media, Daily Caller and various other publications. Her first book, Indivisible: Uniting Values in a Divided America, was released in November, 2005 from Stroud and Hall Publishers. In 1997, Zoller also won to GABBY for Best Locally Produced Talk Show in Georgia. From 1996 to 2001, she hosted the award winning public affairs program, “The Brenau News Forum.

In 2014, Zoller launched zpolitics.com a Georgia based political blog which operated until 2018. She doesn’t just “rip and read” the news but analyzes it and has access to the people who make the news.

In 2005, Zoller added defense expert to repertoire of talents by completing the Department of Defense’s oldest civilian training program, JCOC. Furthermore, she visited with members of all the branches of the service and saw what they could do on their bases around the country. Zoller got a brief by Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard Myers. In July 2005, she was part of the one of the first trips by radio talk show hosts to Kuwait and Iraq which included live broadcasts from Iraq. They got briefs by General John Custer of the United States Army and General Abdul Qader Jassim of the Iraqi Army. She interviewed with scores of men and women in uniform and it was a life changing experience.

Martha Zoller Personal Life

She further returned to Iraq in January 2007 and took a Gold Star Father back to thank the troops. Zoller is also involved in many projects directly relating to support of the troops. She participates in Freedom Alliance events and fundraising around the country.

Her love of the military came from her father, Frank Mitchell who served in Company B of the Essex Troop. He served from 1938 to 1946 and was captured in Montreval, France in September 1944. And with three other Prisoners of War POW’s, escaped from prison camp before the end of WWII.

She lives in Gainesville, Georgia with her husband and they have 4 grown children. As of 2021, she has 6 grandchildren and attends Gainesville First United Methodist Church. In addition, Zoller serves on the Board of the Beulah Rucker Museum and Educational Foundation. She has also served on the Friends of Recovery Board. She was named the Business Woman of the Year by the ABWA and is a Rotarian. From 2008 to 2016, Zoller served on the University of Georgia Alumni Board of Directors.  In 2012, she joined the Jekyll Island Foundation Board. Zoller serves as the 9th District Representative on the Georgia State Board of Education since 2020. 

Martha Zoller Age

She was born in Columbus, Georgia on 23 August 1959 and is 65 years old as of 2024.

Martha Zoller Height

There is no information about her height. However, will update as soon as the information is available.

Martha Zoller Education

She graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from University of Georgia Grady School of Journalism in 1979. Zoller is a lifelong learner who holds an MA in Political Science from the University of Georgia’s School of Politics and International Affairs.

Martha Zoller Family

She was born in Columbus, Georgia to Frank and Juanita Mitchell (née Roof). Her father was a veteran of World War II in Europe and a Prisoner of War (POW) escapee. Her mother worked with the Rich’s company in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. Zoller is the youngest of four children.

Martha Zoller Husband

She tied the knot with Linwood Zoller III on 2 June 1990.

Martha Zoller Children

She is a mother to four children and also has six grandchildren.


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