Growing up in Memphis, Debbie Whitelow attended Campus School and White Station High School. She went to college at the University of Memphis and graduated with a B.S. in Education and Recreation and Parks Administration. Debbie has worked as a substitute teacher, managed the school cafeteria at St. Paul’s School in Clearwater, Florida, and worked for 18 years as the Program and Volunteer Director for the USO, which served military personnel and their families in Memphis and Shelby County, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama and Kentucky. She joined Grace-St. Luke's School’s support staff in 2004 as the Administrative Assistant. She has one son attending Germantown High School who is a GSL alum.