Debra has been at the Sturm College of Law since 1997, where she created the Advanced Legal Research course for the Westminster Law Library. She teaches Lawyering Process and Advanced Legal Research. Her teaching and research is focused on lawyering skills, education policy, and how technology can be used to enhance teaching and learning. She is a co-investigator on a $1.2 million dollar ITEST grant awarded by the National Science Foundation to study the role of interdisciplinary humane games in learning. Debra consults with law firms and individual lawyers on lawyering skills. She serves as a member of the Business Advisory Counsel for Martin Luther King Jr. Early College. She received the William T. Driscoll Master Educator Award in 2001.