| Robert Ricketts, Ph.D, CPA
Texas Tech University/Lubbock, TX
Robert Ricketts is Professor Emeritus in Taxation at Texas Tech University. He lives outside of Lubbock, Texas with his beautiful wife, who is also a CPA. His daughter is a CPA working with a public accounting firm in Dallas. Certified in the state of Texas in 1984, Ricketts taught in the graduate tax program for 35 years and held the Frank M. Burke chair in Taxation there. His primary teaching responsibilities were in tax research, corporate tax and international tax, and he was (and still is) co-author of CCH’s Taxation of Partnerships and S Corporations. He served as Director of the School of Accounting, now the Lyons School of Accounting, for almost 20 years before retiring in 2023.
Robert has co-authored a number of courses on partnership and S corporation taxation for the AICPA over the last 2 decades and was co-author of two popular tax textbooks while at Tech. Having retired, he now enjoys working with the boarding stable he runs with his wife, along with any number of outdoor activities, and, of course, working with the AICPA. |