Debbie G. Buckner is currently the state representative of house district 137. She was first elected to the general assembly in 2002. Buckner currently serves as a member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Health, and the Ways and Means, Natural Resources & Environment, Retirement, State Properties and Technology and Infrastructure Innovation committees. Buckner 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.

Debbie G. Buckner is a board member of Twin Cedars, which provides programs and services to children and their families in Columbus, LaGrange and Macon, and she is currently serving as board chair of Three Rivers AHEC, as well as a board member and past chairman of the West Central Georgia Cancer Coalition, a member of the Network for Professionals and Executives, a member of the Chattahoochee Indian Heritage Association Board, and serves as a member of the Easter Seals Board and the Safe Kids of Columbus Board. She 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.

Debbie grew up in Columbus and lived there until she moved to Talbot County in 1976. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Health Science from Columbus State University and attended Georgia Southwestern College for postgraduate work and to earn a teaching certificate. She has volunteered with the American Lung Association of Georgia, Columbus-Ft. Moore Chapter of the American Cancer Society, Girl Scouts, Columbus Hospice, the Jekyll Island Foundation, the Valley Collaborative for Suicide Prevention and Historic Talbotton Foundation. Rep. She is married to Mike Buckner, and they live at Fielder’s Mill in Talbot County with their three children.