Deborah Shropshire is an American civil servant who served as the Oklahoma Secretary of Human Services in the cabinet of Governor Kevin Stitt from 2023 to 2024.
From 2001 to 2015 Shropshire was the medical director for the Pauline E. Mayer Children’s Shelter and she helped develop the Fostering Hope Clinic.
[2] She was appointed as the first woman director of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services on January 10, 2023, by Governor Kevin Stitt.
[4] In June 2024, she was transitioned from secretary to "chief advisor" after Attorney General Gentner Drummond wrote an attorney general opinion on cabinet secretaries and dual officeholding.
[7] Stitt denied her resignation was related to the Woolley family's custody dispute.