I live on 20 acres out near the town of Lorane with my husband, Dennis Stimple, and a variety of cats. I have two daughters, Claire and Brooke, and a granddaughter, Sagen Aurora Kilauea Oliphant (http://saganoliphant.org).

I was born in Portchester, New York, moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida when I was 11, and then went off to college. My Ph.D. is in Business Administration from Penn State University. I moved to Oregon in 1978.

I have taught lots of different accounting subjects at both the undergraduate and graduate levels including: understanding and managing cash flow, introductory financial and managerial; intermediate; international; individual taxation; corporation, partnership, estate and trust taxation; and tax implications of managerial decision making. I have taught at Florida Atlantic University, Penn State, Oregon and the University of Glasgow in Scotland.

Here at Oregon, I have been a professor, a journal editor, the Director of the MBA and Ph.D. Programs, the Associate Dean of the College of Business, and the Director of the University's International College. I currently serve as the Chair of the Department and as the Director of the Master of Accounting. While trying to figure out what to do with my professional career, I worked as an auditor for Ernst & Ernst in Atlanta, Georgia, as a school bus driver, a secretary, and a waitress. Three years ago, I worked on a farm in eastern Oregon during the onion harvest. It was backbreaking and rewarding work. I loved it.

I started National Tax Seminars, a Subchapter S Corporation, in the early 1980's. This company was dedicated to educating professionals about the tax law, business tax planning, and family financial planning. The 1986 Tax Act reduced individual income tax rates to 28% and eliminated the deduction for travel to tax planning seminars, so the company repositioned itself to conduct tax planning and investing seminars at various conventions. I left the company around 1987. I have a registered business name in Oregon for various self-employed activities. The name is Daisy Hill. I have run tree farm activities, dog boarding, and textbook writing through this organization. It is a sole proprietorship at the moment.

Dennis Stimple is a building contractor and owns Homework Construction, a sole proprietorship.

I have been a jogger since 1973 and have completed two marathons. I ran the Hood to Coast Relay in 1995 and asked myself more than once, why? I enjoy entertaining friends and I am a good, not great, vegetarian cook. I am the first woman to ever hold the rank of Professor in this College of Business. I am a feminist in that I believe in equality of people, all people.