Debbie Buckland

TRUIST Bank

2022 Women with Heart Honoree
Debbie Buckland

Debbie Buckland retired in 2021 as market president for Truist Bank in Jacksonville, Florida, following a forty year career in financial services.

Buckland is currently vice chair of Jacksonville Transportation Authority, a past chair of JAXChamber, Downtown Vision, Inc., Jacksonville Women’s Business Center and American Cancer Society. She currently serves on the boards of WJCT, First Coast YMCA and JaxChamber Foundation, and is an active of Wolfson Children’s Hospital Women’s Board, Jacksonville Women’s Network, and Women’s Giving Alliance.

In 2019, Buckland was inducted into the First Coast Business Hall of Fame, and honored by Downtown Vision, Inc. with the 2019 Downtown Achievement Award. She was named a Woman of Distinction by Girl Scouts of Gateway Council, Woman of Influence by the Jacksonville Business Journal in 2006, is a 2009 graduate of Leadership Jacksonville and in 2011 was named by the Mayor’s Commission on the Status of Women as one of Jacksonville’s Women Making a Difference.

Buckland is a 1979 graduate of Emory & Henry College in Emory, Virginia with a B.A. in Business & Economics and Philosophy. She and her husband Jamie are empty-nesters living in Atlantic Beach with their Portuguese water dog, Bos’n.