Teresa Lightner
Associate Professor
Phone: 565-3098
Office: BA 217D
Email: Teresa.Lightner@unt.edu
Profile
Teresa A. Lightner joined the UNT Department of Accounting faculty as an Associate Professor in fall of 2008 and is designated the KPMG Faculty Fellow in Taxation. She received her Ph.D. and M.S.A. in taxation, plus a B.B.A. in accounting from the University of Oklahoma. Teresa brings 11 years of university teaching experience (University of Oklahoma, University of Georgia, and Texas Tech University) to the classroom and has received the University of Oklahoma Michael F. Price College of Business and School of Accounting Outstanding Teaching Awards. Her work experience includes tax accounting for an oil and gas company and managing several businesses she started from the ground up. Dr. Lightner’s research interests are in the areas of dividend taxation, the effects of taxation on corporate distributions, and state taxation. She has published several articles in the Journal of the American Taxation Association, a premier accounting journal.
Non-Academic Interests
Teresa has a 14 year old son, Hunter, and her interests outside the classroom include snow and water skiing, running, volunteering, and travel.
