Dr. Terri Herron was the Paul & Betty Haack Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Accounting and retired in June 2025 after serving 29 years on the accounting faculty at the University of Montana. She also served as associate dean, department chair, graduate program director, area coordinator, and Beta Alpha Psi advisor. She was an AACSB volunteer. Her primary teaching areas were auditing, financial accounting, and accounting information systems. Her research focused on audit regulation, ethics, and auditor judgment, with two ethics-focused papers earning awards. In recent years, she had media mentions on CNN.com, Forbes.com, and the Montana Free Press.
Terri has been a continually licensed CPA since 1987, first in Texas and later in Montana, and was an audit manager and national course instructor with KPMG. She was recently appointed to the Montana Board of Public Accountants. She is also a member of the AICPA and the Montana Society of CPAs (MTCPA). She served on the board of the MTCPA and currently serves on the MTCPA Ethics Committee and the MTCPA Legacy Foundation board. She developed and delivered ethics CPE for MTCPA chapters. The MTCPA honored Dr. Herron with the Outstanding Educator Award in 2002 and 2023, the only faculty member to receive it twice.
Terri currently serves as the Treasurer and chair of the Finance Committee for the YWCA-Missoula, volunteers with Family Promise, is a member of the Finance Task Force of her church conference, and actively volunteers at her church. She previously served as Treasurer for the Missoula Community Chorus, Women’s Opportunity Resource Development, and University Congregational Church.
Terri holds degrees from University of Texas – Arlington (PhD and MS-Accounting) and Baylor University (BSBA). She lives in the beautiful Missoula, Montana with her husband Brad. They have two grown sons and a granddaughter.