Deborah Whitmore Hicks, Esq.

 

Memberships

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861 (President General 2024-2026)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861 (President General 2023-2025)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Corresponding Secretary General 2023-2025; Organizing Secretary General 2021-2023; Counselor General 2019-2021; Alabama Southeast Branch Organizing Branch Governor 2020-2023; Alabama Branch Governor 2017-2019 Honorary Life Governor)

• Presidential Families of America (Recording Secretary General 2022-2025)

• Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars (First Deputy Governor General 2024-2026; Librarian General 2021-2023; Alabama Governor 2020-2022)

• Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution (Recording Secretary General 2023-2025; Chancellor General 2021-2023; Hugh Quinn Chapter Governor 2024-2026; 2018-2020)

• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 (Second Vice President General 2023-2025; Treasurer General 2019-2021)

• National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century (Organizing Secretary General 2024-2027; Treasurer General 2019-2021; Alabama Chapter President 2018-2021)

• Descendants of Colonial Mothers 1607 - July 4, 1776 (Chancellor General 2023-2025; Parliamentarian 2019-2023)

• National Order of the Blue and Gray (Historian General 2023-2025)

• Order of the Steel Magnolias (Counselor General 2018-2026; Incorporator; Co-Founder)

• National Society Descendants of Colonial Indentured Servants (Counsellor General 2019-2025)

• Descendants of Early Postmasters 1607-1900 (Counselor General 2021-2025)

• Sons and Daughters of Virginia Founding Fathers (Governor General 2021-2023; Incorporator; Founding Board)

• Order of the Kings and Queens in the Holy Lands (Chancellor General 2018-2026; Incorporator; Founder)

• Hereditary Order of the Red Dragon (Chancellor 2018-2026; Incorporator; Founder)

• Order of the Sovereigns of Ancient Scandinavia (Chancellor 2019-2026; Incorporator; Founder)

• Descendants of Brian Boru (Chancellor General 2018-2025; Incorporator; Co-Founder)

• Order of the Descendants of EL CID (Chancellor General 2018-2024; Incorporator; Founder)

• Order of the House of Wessex (Legal Advisor pro tempore’ 2021-2026)

• Order of Alba (Parliamentarian 2019-2025)

• Colonial Dames of America (Chapter XXXVI New Orleans President 2024-2027)

• National Society Daughters of the American Colonists (Alabama Society State Regent 2024-2027)

• National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century (Alabama Society State President 2023-2025)

• National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars (South East Alabama Society Organizing State President 2019-2025)

• Jamestowne Society (The Alabama Company, Deputy Governor 2022-2026; Treasurer 2016-2022)

• National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (Treasurer National 2021-2024)

• National Society Southern Dames of America (National Corresponding Secretary 2020-2022; The Magnolias Chapter Organizing President 2018-2020; Alabama Society President 2016-2018)

• Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America (Counselor General 2018-2024)

• The National Order of the Korean War (Incorporator; Founder 2021)

• National Society Descendants of American Farmers (Advisory Council Life; Incorporator; Founder)

• National Society of the Colonial Dames of America

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Registrar; Treasurer; Past Chapter Regent)

• National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor

• Military Order of the Southern Cross in the Pacific Theatre

• Hereditary Order of the Families of Presidents and First Ladies of America

• Flagon and Trencher: Descendants of Colonial Tavern Keepers

• Hereditary Society of Teachers

• Society of Indiana Pioneers

• American Rosie The Riveter Association

• Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865

• Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic

• National Gavel Society 

• Descendants of Continental Colonial Officers (Commander General 2023-2026; Incorporator; Founder)

• Order of Bacon’s Rebellion (Governor General 2024-2026; Incorporator; Founder)

• Society of First Families of Quebec (Chancellor General 2022-2025; Incorporator, Founder)

• Order of Founders of the Granville District (Chief Justice 2022-2026; Incorporator; Founder)

• Society of the 1704 Virginia Quit Rents (Deputy Governor General 2024-2026; Founding Chief Justice General 2020-2026; Incorporator; Founder)

• National Society Founders of Places of Worship in America (Founding Chancellor General 2022-2025; Incorporator)

• The Descendants of Colonial Regulators (1st Vice President 2019-2025; Incorporator; Co-Founder)

• The Order of William The Marshal (Attornatio 2021-2025; Incorporator; Founder)

• Founders Fellowship 

• The Order of Cloak and Dagger 

• The IX

• The Ladies' Memorial Association of Montgomery (AL)

• Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Auxiliary (Life Member)

• Alabama Society Sons of the American Revolution Ladies Auxiliary

 

Awards

Recipient of the National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims Thomas W. Bicknell National Service Award

Recipient of the Royal Order of the Kings and Queens Award 

Recipient of the Sons of the American Revolution Martha Washington Medal

Recipient of the Sons of the American Revolution Medal of Appreciation

Recipient of the Military Order of Stars & Bars Judah P. Benjamin Merit Award

Recipient of the Department of Defense Vietnam War Commemoration Certificate of Appreciation, which she accepted on behalf of the entire Lewis Chapter, NSDAR, Eufaula, AL

Recipient of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Meritorious and Distinguished Service Award

Appointed and Commissioned as an Honorary Tennessean by Governor Bill Lee

Awarded the American Jurisprudence Labor Law Book Award

 

 

Other

 

Multiple genealogical and historical societies

Friends of the Library

Docent, Eufaula Pilgrimage Tour of Homes

 

United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Retired Status, 27 years of service, including Flotilla Commander.