Buttons has worked in school bus transportation for 31 years in a school district with over 70, 000 students and 500+ buses. She turned a part-time job as a bus driver working to make money to pay for college into a life-long career in transportation. She moved up through the ranks, and for the past fifteen years, she was the district’s routing program administrator and was responsible for supervising routing staff, maintaining the districts routing software, and coordinating routes for the district’s students.