Deborah is an Accredited Adviser of Insurance (AAI), and has over three decades of insurance experience. She started her insurance career from the ground up in 1978 as a policy typist and rose through the ranks becoming a commercial underwriter. By 1988, she became an Independent Insurance Agent selling commercial lines insurance. In 1999 she founded D. Ward Insurance Services which is a full-service insurance agency providing insurance services for businesses and families throughout the southeast.