Get to Know the Candidates for the 2023 Board of Directors Election

Before the election starts, please take a few minutes to get to know the candidates on the 2023 ballot for the following Board of Director offices:

• President-Elect
• Director-Focusing on Academic/Practitioner Interaction
• Director-Focusing on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

For each position on the ballot, the Board of Directors has provided guidance on the roles and responsibilities and key interests and capabilities for the position based on the Board's analysis of current projects, including ongoing Board positions and mission-related initiatives.

To view the Slate of Officers for the 2022-2023 Board of Directors, please CLICK HERE.

New officers will serve on the Board of Directors for three years beginning at the Annual Meeting in August 2022.

Stephen R. Moehrle
Statement of Interest
I am proud of the American Accounting Association.  I am proud of the impact the members and the staff have had on the accounting profession for over a century. It has been my pleasure to serve the AAA as an author, conference presenter, conference reviewer, journal referee, region board member, committee member, task force chair, journal associate editor, and vice president.  The experiences and lessons of these roles provides a foundation for serving the organization as president.  If elected, I would strive to lead the organization in the tradition of especially four past Presidents with whom I worked closely - Christine Botosan, Karen Pincus, Gary Previts, and Marc Rubin.  Each cared deeply about the organization and the accounting profession, maintained a positive disposition, was forward thinking, and treated the AAA professional staff with utmost respect.  In my view, these are the most important qualities for the volunteer leaders of the organization.

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Steve Moehrle is Chair and Professor of Accounting at the University of Missouri – St. Louis.  He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1998. He is also a Certified Public Accountant. Steve has won several research and teaching awards including the Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award, the University of Missouri-St. Louis Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence, the Missouri Society of CPAs’ Outstanding Educator Award, and the AICPA’s Distinguished Accomplishment in Accounting Education.  He has published articles in top journals including The Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, and the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy.  He also co-authored the monograph “The CPA Profession: Opportunities, Responsibilities, and Services,” which is published by the AICPA.  He currently serves as Associate Editor of Accounting Horizons and previously served as American Accounting Association Vice-President – Finance and Chair of the Board of the Missouri Society of CPAs’ (MOCPA) Education Foundation.  

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Mark H. Taylor
Statement of Interest
Over my career I have been fortunate to serve in a wide variety of AAA roles, most recently as Vice President-Finance. I have also served the broader profession as a member of the Auditing Standards Board and as an SEC Academic Fellow, and served for nearly a decade as a Department Chair/Director. During my academic career, I have maintained close connections to practice, including 15 years of audit firm oversight serving as an Investment Company Audit Committee Chair. Although accounting education is facing unprecedented challenges, I see a bright future. I am humbled and deeply honored to have been nominated to serve as AAA President. Serving as President would provide the opportunity to “pay forward” the immense rewards I have received from AAA membership/service. If I am elected, I will invest my time, effort and energy in collaborating with all AAA stakeholders to address the challenges we face and to preserve, enhance and strengthen the AAA.

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Mark H. Taylor is Professor and holds the Dan and Tina Johnson Endowed Directorship in Accountancy at the Lynn Pippenger School of Accountancy, University of South Florida (USF). Previously he held appointments at Case Western Reserve, Creighton, the University of South Carolina, and the University of Nebraska.  He earned a PhD in Accounting from the University of Arizona and holds MAcc and BS degrees from BYU.  Mark has received the following awards:  2021 Best Paper in AJPT (with co-authors S. Glover and Y. Wu), 2020 USF Outstanding Research Achievement, 2019 Ohio Region/OSCPA Outstanding Educator, 2015 National Beta Alpha Psi Business Information Professional of the Year, and 2011 Weatherhead School of Management Graduate Student Outstanding Teacher.  Mark’s research has been published in The Accounting Review; Contemporary Accounting Research; Accounting, Organizations & Society; Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory; Accounting Horizons; Behavioral Research in Accounting; International Journal of Auditing; Journal of Accountancy and other journals. 

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Ingrid E. Fisher
Statement of Interest

I am confident that I have the necessary experience with the AAA, demonstrated inclusive leadership skills and proven ability to interact productively with accounting practice to be effective in the position.

My strengths lie in my ability to work with diverse groups, to listen, to generate ideas, to adapt to change and to remain focused on results. My academic roots are in both accounting and technology. I believe that background provides me the competence to strengthen the linkage between the current requirements of accounting practice and a relevant accounting curriculum. 

My research has consistently joined technology with either regulation (accounting standards, XBRL), practice or pedagogy. I have leveraged this background to generate strong academic-practice research relationships through special topics conferences and workshops.

I have a long history (beginning in 1995) of performance in the DE&I space, an accompanying record of accomplishment and an ongoing passion to push progress forward.

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Ingrid Fisher, Ph.D., CPA, CFE, is an experienced Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Accounting and Law at the University of Albany-SUNY, New York, which is AACSB accounting-accredited.

Ingrid is a professionally-oriented academic, who is maintaining significant relationships with the Big Four and other professional services companies, international corporations, and fiscal departments of government offices.  She has 15 years of AAA service experience including SET Section President.  Accomplished in working with diverse groups, Ingrid is an inclusive leader who listens, generates ideas, and adapts to change while remaining focused on achieving results.

Ingrid’s scholarship focuses on the use of computational linguistics to better understand accounting terminology, accounting documents and the creation of tools to facilitate the digital manipulation of accounting information.  She has organized academic-practitioner special topics conferences on emerging developments in textual analytics since 2013.  Ingrid recently co-authored “Textual Analysis for Accountants”, published in IMA’s Strategic Finance. 

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Bette M. Kozlowski
Statement of Interest
I am qualified and would like to serve given my involvement with the AAA and the profession.   I have served the AAA on section boards, taskforces and committees, aligning the academy with the profession to promote research, teaching excellence in the classroom, curriculum and faculty development, innovation and impact, as well as attracting students to the accounting major, while ensuring we are expanding our efforts in diversity and inclusion.  I have a network with the other firms, the CAQ, the PhD Project, state societies, the AICPA, the AACSB and exam providers which will allow me to increase AAA engagement and support.   With a continued concern for relevant and timely research, my engagement with faculty for research review and access to employees, gives me an in-depth understanding of the research process, as well as knowledge of  “hot topics” that can be used to ensure we are competitive with our publications.

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Bette M. Kozlowski is a national director with talent acquisition responsible for faculty and academic relations.  She was an audit senior manager, serving clients in the manufacturing and higher education industries.  Bette develops and executes faculty strategy, coordinates academic research projects, curriculum development and conferences. Bette’s a liaison with the CAQ, the AAA, the KPMG U.S. Foundation, the PhD Project, and KPMG’s Global Solutions Group.

Bette is on the board of the Accounting Programs Leadership Group and is the Vice Chairperson-Practice of the TLC Section.  She has served on the AAA membership committee, practice advisory committee and the education committee. She was a member of the CAQ Influencing Academia working group.  She was on the AACSB International board of directors, as well as the accounting accreditation and accreditation quality committees. Bette chairs and participates in AACSB accreditation visits.   Bette received the Federation of Schools of Accountancy 2017 Practitioner Service Award and is a member of the AICPA.

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Thomas J. Linsmeier
Statement of Interest
I am qualified to serve as Director-Focusing on Academic/Practitioner Interaction based on my thirteen years serving as both Academic Fellow and Special Consultant to the Office of the Chief Accountant at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (3 years) and Member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (10 years). During these experiences, I interacted regularly with key stakeholders in the accounting world, including financial statement issuers, auditors, users, and regulators. In these positions, I gained exposure to and familiarity with many of the leaders of the practitioner community. I also have made numerous speeches to members of this community. These relationships will serve me well if I am nominated and elected to serve the American Accounting Association as Director-Focusing on Academic/Practitioner Interaction. 

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Tom Linsmeier is the Thomas G. Ragatz Accounting and Law Distinguished Chair in the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also has held faculty positions at the University of Iowa, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Michigan State University.

Tom has interacted with the practitioner community as a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board and as Academic Fellow and Special Consultant to the Office of the Chief Accountant at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He has served the AAA as president of the Financial and Accounting Reporting Section and has received its Outstanding Accounting Educator Award.

His research explores the role of accounting information in securities markets, focusing on standard setting issues. His work has been published in The Accounting Review; Journal of Accounting Research; Review of Accounting Studies; Contemporary Accounting Research; and Accounting Horizons, amongst other journals.

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Henock Louis
Statement of Interest
I am delighted to accept the nomination to stand for election for the Director-Focusing on DEI position. If elected, I will bring to the table a passion for DEI and a profound understanding of the DEI issues in the academy, which I have developed through years of involvement in the various aspects of the DEI effort. My broad administrative experience has also taught me valuable lessons that I can use to build bridges and gain others to the cause. I can further draw upon my life story and my public speaking experience to inspire and motivate others to broaden their horizons and their social engagements and to support the DEI mission of the AAA. With that, let me reaffirm my full commitment to continue to be an ardent advocate for minority and LGBT+ causes and my interest in the director position.

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Henock Louis is the KPMG Professor and the Head of the Accounting Department at Penn State. He has published in the top accounting and finance journals and conducted seminars at a host of universities worldwide. He received the 2005 Excellence in Research Award from the AAA Diversity Section and is an editor for the Accounting Horizons and a guest editor for The Accounting Review. He has also served on the editorial boards of The Accounting Review and the Contemporary Accounting Research, and as an ad-hoc reviewer for the major accounting and finance journals. Professor Louis is deeply immersed in DEI issues. He has been an active member of the Ph.D. Project and is serving on the AAA DEI committee and relevant committees at Penn State. Professor Louis holds a Ph.D. in Accounting from Ohio State University and a Ph.D. in Finance and a master’s in Accounting from the University of Mississippi.

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Norma R. Montague
Statement of Interest
I feel my background and experience makes me well-qualified to hold this position. As a Latina educator, I have seen firsthand the possibilities and limitations of DEI efforts, whether via strides to create a more level playing field for underrepresented populations in accounting education or the tacit resistance to such efforts within certain academic circles. Further, I have gained a wealth of knowledge as an officer in the Diversity Section of the AAA (most recently as President) and as a member of the AAA’s Diversity Task Force, which was created to explore and implement DEI reforms within the AAA. I will leverage these experiences to inform my interactions with the Board of Directors in an effort to continue the forward momentum of DEI efforts in the AAA. I am passionate about diversity issues and would be honored to hold this position if given the opportunity.

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Norma Ramirez Montague, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Accounting, the Senior Associate Dean of Academic Programs at the Wake Forest University School of Business, and the Senior Associate Dean of the Master of Science in Management program. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of South Florida, and her BA and Master of Accounting at North Carolina State University. She has taught business courses in both English and Spanish as an instructor at a community college. At WFU, she has taught financial accounting, managerial accounting, and auditing courses in the undergraduate business program, Master of Science in Accountancy program, and Master of Science in Management program. She has served in several noteworthy service capacities, including as 2020-2021 President of the Diversity Section of the American Accounting Association, Treasurer of the Federation of Schools of Accountancy, and as a member of the American Accounting Association Diversity Task Force. 

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