Dr. Deborah Honeycutt is a family medicine physician who has been a small business owner in private practice.

Dr. Honeycutt understands that the goverment should support small business owners so they can create good paying jobs.

She is a board certified family medicine physician who earned her university and professional degrees from the University of Illinois School of Medicine and Family Practice Residency Program.

She is the past Medical Director of Spelman College Health Services and present Medical Director of Clayton State University Health Clinic. She has been a faculty member of Atlanta Medical Center’s Family Practice Residency Training Program and worked with the Emory University Family Practice Residency Training Program.

Dr. Honeycutt has cared for residents of Georgia at Georgia Baptist Family Doctor in Palmetto, GA and later as a solo private practice family physician at Five Points Family Practice in Fairburn, Georgia.

In 2004 Dr. Honeycutt was President of the Georgia Academy of Family Physicians and in 2005 served as Chairman of the Board of Directors. On the national level she has served on the American Academy of Family Physicians’ Commission on Education. She was twice elected the nationally elected Minority Constituency Delegate and is now the Georgia State Delegate to the American Academy of Family Physicians.

In 2005 she became Medical Director of Good Shepherd Clinic, the free clinic in Morrow, Georgia. She served as medical director there until her decision to run for U.S. Congress in Georgia District 13. Dr. Honeycutt, despite her campaign schedule in 2006, continued to serve free clinic patients as a volunteer physician.

Dr.Honeycutt is active in lobbying at the state and federal level for improvement of health care in Georgia. Her local community involvement includes guest presentations and lectures on topics of diseases that disproportionately affect African Americans, including diabetes, obesity and domestic violence. She has served on the Georgia Free Clinic Network Board of Directors and on the Board of Directors of the Georgia Partnership for Caring. She currently serves on the boards of the CareNet Pregnancy Resource Center of Atlanta, the Georgia Academy of Family Physicians and is Co-Chair of the Georgia’s Department of Community Health Minority Health Community Advisory Council. She is also an active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

Dr. Honeycutt is married to Dr. Andrew Honeycutt, a Harvard University Doctor of Business Administration and professor of business at Shorter College. They are members of Word of Faith Family Cathedral.