Debbie Landers has served as founder and principal of the General Assembly Academy in Hohewald, the county seat of Lewis County. Since 1996, she has served as the executive director of the Tennessee Association of Non-Public Academic Schools (TANAS). Debbie's community activities include Leadership Lewis, Lewis County Child Help Task Force, Lewis County Health Council, The Emporium, Parlimentarian to the Chamber of Commerce and the Sonnenschein Festival Steering Committee, which is helping to organize "Financial Permaculture: The Greening of a Rural American Community."