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BLACK CPA #14: G. Steven Marchman III, CPA

G Steven Marchman IIIG. Steven Marchman III was licensed in the state of Illinois in 1944. Marchman had a firm and was involved with other African American CPAs. He was well known for keeping the list of all black CPAs in the country.

BLACK CPA #71: Nathan T. Garrett, CPA

Nathan T Garrett CPANathan Garrett, licensed in 1961, is one of the first Black CPAs in North Carolina. In 1962, he opened his own practice in North Carolina and was the first African American to do so. After many years and a lot of hard work, the firm became the largest and oldest minority-owned firm in North Carolina.

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Black CPA #58: Theodora F. Rutherford, CPA

Theodora F. Rutherford, CPATheodora Rutherford was the first known African American student at Columbia Business School. After a rule change allowed her to become a qualified Certified Public Accountant in 1959, she went on to become the first black CPA in West Virginia.

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Black CPA #27: Milton Wilson, CPA

Milton Wilson, CPADr. Milton Wilson, CPA was Texas’ first African-American CPA. Licensed in 1952, he was among the nation’s first 100 African-American CPAs and was one of the first seven African-Americans to earn a doctoral degree in accounting. Dr. Wilson, as dean, led Texas Southern University’s (TSU) School of Business in 1967 to become the first historically black college or university to earn accreditation from the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). In 1970, Wilson became dean of Howard University’s School of Business, which, in 1980, he also led to AACSB accreditation. He was the only dean to accomplish this at two African-American colleges.

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Black CPA #13: Mary T. Washington, CPA

Mary T Washington CPAMary T. Washington CPA licensed in 1943 was the first African American woman to be a CPA in the United States.

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Black CPA #12: William L. Campfield, CPA

William Lewis CampfieldWilliam Louis Campfield (1912–1993), in 1951 became the first Black CPA Ph.D. He was also the first Black CPA in North Carolina and the first Black person inducted into the Beta Alpha Psi organization. His parents, graduates of the Tuskegee Institute and students of Booker T. Washington, were teachers, according to research by Dereck Barr-Pulliam, CPA, Ph.D., assistant professor of accountancy at the University of Louisville. Campfield and his eight siblings attended a school on the Institute’s campus and then he was sent to live with relatives in Pittsburgh so he could attend a college preparatory high school. He enrolled in New York University, supporting himself by working at a bowling alley, then returned to teach at Tuskegee in 1933.

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Black CPA #52: Clarence Roscoe Newby, CPA

Clarence R. Newby, CPA, was born in Abbeville, Alabama, on January 28, 1926. He studied at Tuskegee Institute, University of California - Berkley, and Harms Business College before earning his Bachelor of Business Administration from Golden Gate University in 1949.

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Black CPA #61: Lester H. McKeever, Jr., CPA, JD

Lester McKeever, CPALester H. McKeever, Jr.,  was born June 15, 1934, in Chicago. He attended Douglas elementary and Wendell Philips High School. He then graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign and went on to study law at the Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago Kent College of Law.  and earned his CPA in 1960. After graduating from law school, he started his career at Washington & Pittman, working for Mary T. Washington, the first female African-American CPA. He became a partner in the firm renamed Washington, Pittman & McKeever, and eventually became managing partner in 1976.

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