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Partners in Business Ethics Symposium
Panelists & Participants
Sherron Watkins
Ms. Watkins is the former Vice President of Enron Corporation who alerted then-CEO Ken Lay in August 2001 to accounting irregularities within the company, warning him that Enron ‘might implode in a wave of accounting scandals.’ She has testified before Congressional Committees from the House and Senate investigating Enron’s demise. TIME magazine named Sherron, along with two others, Coleen Rowley of the FBI and Cynthia Cooper of WorldCom, as their 2002 Persons of the Year, for being “people who did right just by doing their jobs rightly.”
Watkins now lectures on leadership and ethics as the Executive-in-Residence at the McCoy College of Business at Texas State University and as Professor of the Practice at Kenan-Flagler at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Ms. Watkins is a Certified Public Accountant. She holds a Masters in Professional Accounting as well as a B.B.A. in accounting and business honors from the University of Texas at Austin.
Watkins is co-author of Power Failure, the Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron, (Doubleday, 2003).
Sherron and her husband Rick have been married for 23 years, they have a college age daughter, attending the University of Texas at Austin. They reside in Georgetown, Texas. Contact her at sherronwatkins@txstate.edu.