Deborah Ann Turner (October 4, 1950 – January 28, 2024) was an American physician, the 20th president of the League of Women Voters of the United States (LWVUS), and the chair of the Board of Trustees of the League of Women Voters Education Fund (LWVEF).
Turner was also affiliated with Mercy Medical Center & Children's Hospital Des Moines (Iowa).
degree from Iowa State University[5] where she was the first African-American woman asked to join a sorority.
[6] Turner was first interested in medicine because her older sister, Delores, was a registered nurse.
[5] Turner was inducted into the Iowa Women’s Hall of Fame in 2013[13][6] and received the Gertrude Rush Award from the National Bar Association in 2015.