Debbie Buckner

A native Georgian, Representative Buckner grew up in Columbus and lived there until she married and moved to Talbot County in 1976. She was first elected to the Georgia General Assembly in 2002 and currently serves the citizens of House District 137, which is comprised of Talbot County, as well as portions of Meriwether, Muscogee and Troup counties. Rep. Buckner currently serves as Secretary of the Rural Development committee. She also serves on the Appropriations Subcommittee on Health, Natural Resources & Environment, Retirement, State Properties and Ways & Means committees, and she was the only freshman to serve on the Natural Resources & Environment Water Subcommittee. She has served as an assistant to the Majority Whip and then as an assistant to the Minority Whip. She was the House Democratic Caucus secretary and currently serves as vice chair of the Rural Caucus. Rep. Buckner is the former director of community benefit at Columbus Regional Healthcare System, having previously worked for Doctors Hospital as the director of community relations and the Columbus Health Department as senior public health educator. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Health Science from Columbus…