Audit Director

Owen Whitworth is director of the Audit Office.

In 1981, Whitworth joined TxDOT as a manager of accounting, responsible for the department’s financial and cost-accounting system operations and user requirements, as well as testing and implementation of a new financial and cost accounting system. He became director of the Audit Office in 1984.

Whitworth is vice chair, and former secretary, of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials subcommittee on internal and external audit. He is also a member of the Austin Chapter of the Institute of Internal Auditors and the Southwest Intergovernmental Audit Forum, and was chairman of the State Agencies Internal Audit Forum. In 1999, Whitworth was elected to serve on the Board of Trustees of the Employees Retirement System of Texas.

After earning a bachelor’s degree in accounting in 1974 from Idaho State University, Whitworth was certified as a public accountant in 1976 and as an internal auditor in 1988.

Whitworth and his wife, Shirley, have three daughters and one grandson, and are active in their local church.