Release Date: Wednesday, September 13, 2000

SILVIA MADEO APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF THE J.M. TULL SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTING IN UGA'S TERRY COLLEGE OF BUSINESS

ATHENS, Ga. — Silvia A. Madeo is on board as the new director of the J.M. Tull School of Accounting in the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business.

Madeo has joined the Tull School from the University of Missouri at St. Louis (UMSL), where she was accounting area coordinator and a professor in the School of Business Administration.

She is the fifth person, and the first woman, to serve as director of the Tull School of Accounting since the accounting program's status was upgraded to a school within the College of Business in 1977. Her appointment follows a yearlong, nationwide search to name a successor to Russell M. Barefield, who retired in 1999 due to a medical disability. Accounting professor Paul A. Copley served as interim director until mid-August.

"Following a careful and deliberate search, we are pleased to have Silvia Madeo assume leadership of one of our most established and highly regarded academic programs in the Terry College of Business," said Dean P. George Benson, who announced the appointment. "Silvia is very well known in the academic and professional communities, particularly through her leadership positions in some of the top U.S. accounting organizations.

"I also want to thank Paul Copley for his leadership and steadying influence as interim director," Benson said. "He did an outstanding job and will be a valuable resource to Silvia as he returns to his faculty duties."

Madeo joined the UMSL faculty in 1986 and taught undergraduate and graduate tax courses. Before that, she taught federal income taxation and financial accounting at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Iowa. She currently serves as a vice president of the American Accounting Association, the leading association of accounting educators. And she has been actively involved in the American Taxation Association since beginning her academic career. She served as ATA's president in 1994-95.

A certified public accountant in Louisiana, Madeo received her bachelor's degree in accounting from Louisiana Tech and her MBA from the University of Michigan. In 1977, she was awarded a doctorate from North Texas State University, which inducted her as the first member of its Accounting Doctoral Alumni Hall of Fame in 1998.

Her research has been published in The Accounting Review, National Tax Journal, and The Journal of the American Taxation Association. She served as an associate editor of The Accounting Review this past year and was editor of The Journal of the American Taxation Association from 1987 to 1990.

"I am delighted to be joining the Tull School of Accounting with its outstanding faculty, students, and alumni," Madeo said. "The exciting thing about the school is its potential to enhance its reputation for excellence by building on its traditional strengths. The faculty will be exploring ways to achieve this as we evaluate our graduate and undergraduate curricula this fall."

Madeo's husband, Larry, who has been a management information systems instructor at UMSL, also will join the Terry College as an adjunct professor with the Management Information Systems Department.

The Tull School of Accounting was named in 1982, following an endowment given by the J.M. Tull Foundation of Atlanta. U.S. News and World Report ranked UGA's accounting program 20th nationally in its annual ranking of the best undergraduate schools announced earlier this month. A 1999 survey by Public Accounting Report ranked the Tull School's undergraduate and graduate programs in the top 20 nationally.

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