Mr. Scott joined the Board in 2016 and currently serves as Chairman. Mr. Scott is a retired partner and regional public sector leader from Deloitte LLP. With more than 39 years of experience at Deloitte LLP serving public sector clients, he is well known for his extensive knowledge and experience in state and local government accounting, financial reporting, compliance and auditing related issues and is frequently looked to as a resource for shaping conversations and regulatory guidance in these areas. Mr. Scott has been actively involved in professional and industry organization committees serving in a variety of roles from Task Force Member to Committee Chairman including the American Institute of CPA’s, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, Association of School Business Officials, Texas Society of CPA’s, and US Government Accountability Office.

Mr. Scott served as the Lead Client Service Partner for the States of Texas, New Mexico, Arkansas and Louisiana accounts as well as Regional Sector Leader, responsible for the Firm’s services to the public sector in the Mid-America Region. During his career with Deloitte LLP, Mr. Scott has also served as the National Audit Partner for K-12 Education Services ,the National Leader for Services to Local Government and Higher Education, US representative on the Deloitte’s Global Local Government Services Committee, and directed the development of arbitrage rebate services to governments and other organizations in the United States. He is recognized as a specialist in federal and state compliance, regulatory and risk, reporting and auditing and is a frequent speaker on such topics.

Mr. Scott graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Texas Christian University. He is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the State of Texas. He is also a Certified Government Finance Manager and a Chartered Global Management Accountant.

Mr. Bell is currently a Senior Staff Accountant in the Department of the Treasury’s Office of the Fiscal Assistant Secretary, where he is among the team leads responsible for preparing the Financial Report of the U.S. Government and the related Citizen’s Guide, and is a featured speaker on the financial position and condition of the Federal Government.

Mr. Bell’s career in Federal financial management and policy spans more than 25 years in both the public and private sectors, including positions with the Office of Management and Budget, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Small Business Administration. Mr. Bell, an MBA and Certified Government Financial Manager (CGFM), has served as the president of the Washington, DC Chapter, Vice President of the Capital Region, and Senior Vice President for the Association of Government Accountants. He earned a B.S. in Accounting from Washington and Lee University and an MBA from George Mason University. He joined the Board on October 1, 2017.

Ms. Bronner is President and CEO of Bronner Group, LLC, a woman-owned, multi-disciplined professional services company that delivers comprehensive strategy, transformation and accountability consulting services to state and local governments, federal agencies, and government-related organizations. Throughout her distinguished career, Ms. Bronner has assisted several hundred government entities in streamlining business practices, implementing improved internal controls, and developing strong public oversight mechanisms.

Ms. Bronner is the former director of the Government Finance Officers Association’s Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting Program and is a nationally recognized authority on government compliance and oversight and related accountability and internal control issues. She is also a recognized thought leader on public sector implementation and compliance issues associated with the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act).

Pursuant to a Presidential appointment, Ms. Bronner served as a member of the governing board of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and chaired both its Finance and Audit Committees. She also served as an initial member of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Advisory Council, Financial Audit Committee. In addition, Ms. Bronner served as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Institute of CPAs, Illinois CPA Society, and as a member of the Board for the University of Illinois Office of Governmental Accounting Research and Education.

Ms. Bronner received her Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the University of Illinois where she was elected to “Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities.” She is a licensed certified public accountant in Illinois, Indiana, California, Georgia, Massachusetts, and New York. She joined the Board in January 2016.

Mr. Dacey is currently Chief Accountant for the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Mr. Dacey has provided leadership for significant GAO efforts in financial accounting and auditing, as well as in information security, homeland security, and other information technology areas. He served as Director of the consolidated financial statement audit for the initial three audits of the U.S. government’s financial statements. He also led GAO’s initial financial audit efforts at the Department of Health and Human Services and the Internal Revenue Service, and the development of comprehensive audit manuals for financial auditing and information security as well as related training.

Mr. Dacey previously served as a member of the AICPA’s Auditing Standards Board (ASB), the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board (IPSASB), and the FASAB Accounting and Auditing Policy Committee; and as Chair of the AGA’s CEAR Board. In addition, Mr. Dacey’s long-term leadership in GAO’s information security audit efforts has resulted in numerous result-oriented reports and testimonies, including (1) addressing information security challenges in federal agencies and corporations, (2) assessing emerging information security issues, and (3) evaluating the federal government’s efforts to protect our nation’s private and public critical infrastructure from cyberthreats. Prior to joining GAO, Mr. Dacey was a senior manager with Deloitte & Touche and served as divisional business manager and controller for an international corporation.

Mr. Dacey is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Government Financial Manager. He received a B.B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Cincinnati and a J.D. from the George Mason University School of Law. He joined the Board on August 1, 2004.

Ms. Dudley is a retired KPMG LLP partner and was the partner-in-charge of KPMG’s Federal Audit practice in the Washington, DC office for more than 17 years. During her 40-year public accounting career, she primarily focused on performing audit, accounting, and advisory services for government agencies. She served as the audit partner on the initial audits of many federal agencies in the 1990s and grew KPMG’s federal audit practice to over 400 professionals. She served as the overall engagement or quality control review partner for more than 20 cabinet-level and component federal agency financial statement audits. In addition to her extensive federal experience, Ms. Dudley managed the audits of numerous large state and local governments and commercial companies.

After retiring, Ms. Dudley continues to support the federal financial management community as an independent consultant with AGA and Management Concepts Inc., serving as a federal accounting subject matter expert. She is currently the overall Lead Reviewer for the AGA Certificate of Excellence in Accountability Reporting (CEAR) program and is a frequent guest lecturer at the University of Central Missouri on accounting, auditing, and leadership topics.

Ms. Dudley graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree, majoring in accounting, from the University of Central Missouri, and recently received a Master of Business Administration degree with an emphasis in Finance. She is a licensed Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Government Finance Manager. She joined the Board in July 2024.

Dr. Patton is the Robert Madera Distinguished Professor of Accounting in the Dillard College of Business Administration at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. He has co-authored three governmental and nonprofit accounting textbooks, including Accounting for Governmental and Nonprofit Organizations (Cambridge Business Publishers); and was co-author on PPC’s Guide to Governmental Financial Reporting Model: Implementing GASBS No. 34. Previously, Dr. Patton was the Research Manager at the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). He has served on numerous boards as well as the Governmental Accounting Standards Advisory Council. Dr. Patton received a doctor of philosophy from Texas Tech University as well as a master of science from the University of North Texas and a bachelor of business administration from Midwestern State University. He is a Certified Public Accountant (Texas), a Certified Government Financial Manager, and a Chartered Global Management Accountant. He joined the Board on July 1, 2019.

Mr. Vaudt is a CPA who began his career with KPMG in 1976 and served as an audit partner until his retirement in 2001 to seek elective office as Iowa’s Auditor of State. He was elected Auditor of State three times (2002, 2006, and 2010) and resigned his elected position in 2013 upon his appointment as Chairman of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board in Norwalk, Connecticut for a seven-year term which ended on June 30, 2020.

In July 2020, Mr. Vaudt was elected to the Board of Directors of Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield, the dominant health insurer in Iowa and South Dakota with more than two million members, and currently serves as the Audit Committee Chair. In 2021, he was appointed to the AICPA Board of Examiners and elected to the Board of Trustees of Upper Iowa University.

Mr. Vaudt has served on the boards of numerous professional associations, including the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (also serving as Chair), the National State Auditors Association (also serving as Chair), and the CPA Examination Review Board. He has also served on the boards of several civic organizations, including the Better Business Bureau of Iowa (also serving as Chair), Iowa Homeless Youth Centers (also serving as Chair), the Young Women’s Resource Center, the Morris Scholarship Fund (also serving as Chair), the Walnut Creek Family YMCA, the Des Moines Public Schools Audit Committee, and the Iowa Supreme Court Client Security and Attorney Disciplinary Commission.