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 Owen Whitworth is director of the
Audit Office of the Texas Department of
Transportation (TxDOT). He oversees audit functions and reports to the Texas
Transportation Commission and the department’s executive director.
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. |
