Debbie is the Water Quality Officer for the Eastern Shawnee Tribe, with 15 years of service to the Tribe. Her role in the Tribe’s Environmental Department is managing and completing activities for the Water
Quality Monitoring Program and Non-point Source Pollution Prevention Program, both funded by US EPA Clean Water Act grants. Debbie divides her work time into administrative duties, field work for sampling
and BMP projects, laboratory analyses, public health duties, and hosting and participating in education/outreach projects.
Debbie graduated from Missouri Southern State University with a BS in Biology, minor in chemistry. She is a licensed Environmental Specialist/Sanitarian with the state of Oklahoma and current president of
the Lake O’ the Cherokees Sub-Watershed Association.
Debbie lives in a rural southwest Missouri with her husband, youngest son, and three rescued dogs. Debbie had two sons of her own and gained three bonus sons when she married in 2016 and now has 9 grandchildren.
Deborah can be reached by e-mail at ddotson@estoo.net.