State House candidate Debra Shigley pictured with husband and five children in front of wooden barn

Debra Shigley for State House

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Georgia House
District 47

Alpharetta, Milton, Mountain Park, & Roswell

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Meet Debra

I am a mom of five.

My husband, Kevin, and I are raising our five incredible children on a farm in Milton, Georgia. Ages twelve to five, my children Jake, Elle, Levi, Reina, and Margot are students at Summit Hill Elementary and Hopewell Middle School.

I am an attorney.

After graduating from Harvard, I worked full time by day as a reporter and attended Georgia State College of Law by night. The training I received to become an employment lawyer has prepared me to be an outspoken advocate for our district. We need someone in office who will speak up, who will be vigilant about protecting us and our families.

I am a small business owner.

In 2015, I co-founded Colour: a service kind of like Uber for hair, and a startup geared toward delivering hair care services to women of color. Running to represent our neighbors in the Capitol is a big job. But I can’t think of a bigger job than women trusting you with their hair! In this role, I saw, firsthand, the impact of creating jobs and economic opportunity for stylists in our network.

I am an author and former news anchor.

As a lifestyle and culture expert on national and local TV programs, I worked to shine a light on amazing communities. Reporting on and uplifting their beautiful stories was a constant reminder of the bright future we can build when we come together.

I am an active community member.

In 2023, I was proud to work with my neighbors—on both sides of the aisle—to protect a voting precinct in Milton to make it easier for my neighbors to participate in our democracy. I currently serve as an elected member of the Fulton County School Governance Council and I am a proud PTA mom for my kids’ Fulton County public schools. At my synagogue, The Temple, I’ve served on the Security committee, working alongside law enforcement to make sure members of the synagogue visit their house of worship without fear of violence—a sad reality we face today. I also serve on various committees with Planned Parenthood Southeast.

And I am excited to run to represent our district in the State House!

Together, we can make it more affordable to raise a family right here in our district, keep our communities safe, and restore a woman’s right to make her own healthcare decisions with her family and her doctor, not politicians.

Priorities

“We shouldn’t have to wait to create the brightest future for our families—I want our district to be the best it can be right now.”

Making it More Affordable to Raise a Family

I am running because I want to make it more affordable to raise a family in our district. I know from experience—raising five kids is not cheap. Families in our district feel the strain and, as our district’s voice in the Capitol, I am ready to change that.

Under the Gold Dome, I will do everything in my power to make it easier, not harder, to raise a family in our district from advocating for our amazing public school education system to keeping more money in our families’ pockets.

Keeping Our Communities Safe

In my district, I have seen stunning consensus about the need to make our community safer for our kids. Like many Georgians in our district, I am a gun owner who wholeheartedly supports commonsense gun reform.

Last year, I got a text from my son that no parent wants to receive: his school was under a hard lockdown. My heart immediately fell to my stomach. How is this the world we live in? My son and his classmates were safe that day, but what if this wasn’t a false alarm? Guns are the leading cause of death for US children and teens. I am running because I want to make our communities safer by keeping guns out of our childrens’ schools and our houses of worship.

Restoring Reproductive Freedom

Like many women in Georgia, the day Roe v. Wade was overturned, I was shaken to my core. Protecting reproductive freedom is not just about a woman’s ability to make her own health care decisions. It is about privacy, dignity, and freedom. As a law student, I learned about the steady progression of individual rights secured in America. What alarms me—and what motivated me to run for office—is the rollback of rights and liberties.

As your next State Representative, I will work to restore a woman’s right to make her own health care decisions with her family and her doctor, not politicians.

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