Devon’s road to medicine has had more chapters than most. She spent six years with the U.S. Navy as an engineering aide, reading blueprints, testing soil, and making sure every structure stood on a solid foundation. She then trained as a cosmetologist before turning to nursing. As a nurse, she cared for cardiothoracic surgery patients and then spent more than five years in labor and delivery at hospitals across the country.

She earned her master’s and Doctor of Nursing Practice from the University of South Alabama and became a board-certified family nurse practitioner. She spent two years providing family and women’s health care at a rural clinic in La Pine, where she built a panel of more than 900 patients. Today she leads clinical care at a skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility in Bend.

Through every chapter, one thing has stayed the same: Devon keeps digging until she finds the answer. Her thorough, root-cause approach has helped patients get diagnoses in weeks that might otherwise have taken months. She is also the founder of The Esther Network, a nonprofit that supports women through life’s hardest seasons, and Myrtle Collective Health is its healthcare pillar.