Deborah D. Tucker is an American activist and executive who founded the first shelter in the United States for victims of domestic violence and their children.
[2][3] While she was in her twenties, Tucker began volunteer work at the first rape crisis center in Austin, Texas in 1973.
This center was the first in the United States to serve victims of domestic violence and their children.
She served from 2000-2003 as the co-chair of the task force, as appointed by then-president George W. Bush and then-Secretary-of-State Donald Rumsfeld.
For her work, Tucker has received numerous honors and awards, including Public Citizen of the Year by the National Association of Social Workers, and the Standing In The Light of Justice Award and the Marshall Domestic Violence Peace Prize both by the National Network to End Domestic Violence.