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Objectives

To foster the dissemination and publication of information on taxation.

To promote tax educational activities including (but not limited to) curriculum, education-related materials, graduate tax programs, and tax accreditation matters.

To provide an interface among academic disciplines (e.g., law, economics, and accounting) relative to the cross-fertilization and development of tax-oriented educational programs.

To promote research activities involving tax policy, tax proposals, and tax legislation.

To encourage the interaction of academics with tax practitioners and tax professional organizations in professional service activities of mutual interest.

2017-18 Officers

Officer Archives

President Ben Ayers University of Georgia 335 Brooks Hall Athens, GA 30602 Phone: 706-542-8100 Email: bayers@uga.edu	President-Elect Kim Key Auburn University Email: keykimb@auburn.edu

Vice President Lynn Jones Mercer University Stetson School of Business and Economics Cecil B. Day Campus 3001 Mercer University Drive Atlanta, GA 30341 Phone: 678-547-6179 Email: jones_lc@mercer.edu	Vice President-Elect Pete Lisowsky University of Illinois

Vice President- Finance John Barrick Brigham Young University School of Accountancy 540 TNRB Provo, UT 84604 Phone: 801-422-5549 Email: barrick@byu.edu

Secretary Blaise Sonnier University of Colorado- Colorado Springs College of Business Administration 1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway Colorado Springs, CO Email: bsonnier@uccs.edu	Treasurer Tracy Noga Bentley University

Council Representative Nancy Nichols James Madison University MSC 0203, Showker Room 344 Harrisonburg, VA 22807 Phone: (540) 568-8778 Email: nicholnb@jmu.edu	Past President LeAnn Luna University of Tennessee-Knoxville 711 Stokely Management Center Knoxville, TN 37996 Phone: 865-974-6080 Email: leann@utk.edu

2017 Trustees

David P. Weber (2018) Associate Professor of Accounting University of Connecticut Phone: (860) 486-2573 Email: dweber@business.uconn.edu	Michael Donohoe (2018) University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign Email: mdonohoe@illinois.edu

Sean McGuire (2018) Texas A&M University Phone: (979) 845-7935 Email:smcguire@mays.tamu.edu	Sonja Rego (2018) Indiana University- Bloomington Phone: (812) 855-6356 Email: sorego@indiana.edu

James Chyz (2019) University of Tennessee Email: jchyz@utk.edu	Katharine Drake (2019) University of Arizona Email: kddrake@email.arizona.edu

Michaele Morrow (2019) Suffolk University Email: mlmorrow@suffolk.edu	Casey Schwab (2019) Indiana University Email: cmschwab@indiana.edu

Editors

The Journal of the American Taxation Association Senior Editor: Connie Weaver Texas A&M University Email: CWeaver@mays.tamu.edu	The Journal of the American Taxation Association Editor: Linda Krull University of Oregon Email: lkrull@uoregon.edu

The Journal of the American Taxation Association Editor: Stacie Laplante University of Wisconsin-Madison Email: slaplante@bus.wisc.edu	The Journal of the American Taxation Association Editor: Anne Magro George Mason University Email: amagro@gmu.edu

Webmaster Sonja Pippin University of Nevada – Reno Phone: 775-784-1337 Email: sonjap@unr.edu	The ATA Journal of Legal Tax Research Roby B. Sawyers North Carolina State University Phone: 919-515-4443 Email: roby.sawyers@ncsu.edu

Committee Chairperson

ATA/ Deloitte Teaching Innovation Award Greg Geisler University of Missouri - St. Louis Email: geisler@umsl.edu	ATA/PricewaterhouseCoopers Doctoral Dissertation Award Thomas Omer University of Nebraska-Lincoln Email: thomas.omer@unl.edu

ATA Tax Manuscript Award Jenny Brown Arizona State University Email: Jenny.Brown@asu.edu	Annual Meeting - Tax Program Susan Jurney Oklahoma City University Email: njurney@okcu.edu

Awards Stacie Laplante University of Wisconsin Email: stacie.laplante@wisc.edu	Concerns of New Faculty Jeffrey Gramlich Washington State University Email: jeff.gramlich@wsu.edu

ATA/KPMG Doctoral Consortium James Chyz University of Tennessee Email: jchyz@utk.edu	*JATA* Conference Connie Weaver Texas A&M University Email: cweaver@mays.tamu.edu

Legal Research Blaise Sonnier University of Colorado - Colorado Springs Email: bsonnier@uccs.edu	Long-Range Planning Task Force Brigitte Muehlmann Babson College Email: bmuehlmann@gmail.com

2018 Midyear Meeting Program Lynn Jones Mercer University Email: jones_lc@mercer.edu	Regional Programs Committee Amy Santos State College of Florida Email: santosa@scf.edu

Nominations John Robinson Texas A&M Email: jrobinson@mays.tamu.edu	Publications Sonja Rego University of Indiana Email: sorego@indiana.edu

Research Resources and Methodologies Co-Chairs Bridget Stomberg Indiana University Email: stomberger@uga.edu	Research Resources and Methodologies Co-Chairs Erin Towery University of Georgia Email: etowery@uga.edu

External Relations Yvonne Hinson AICPA Email: yhinson@aicpa.org	Technology Committee Candace Witherspoon Valdosta State University Email: candace.witherspoon@gmail.com

Tax Educators Conference Tracy Noga Bentley University Email: tnoga@bentley.edu