Jerome Kern (BBA ’96, MPA ’96) was named vice president and chief financial officer of Flexi-Van Leasing, a lessor of specialized equipment for the intermodal transportation industry.

Anna Tchernina (BBA ’99, MPA ’99) is Facebook’s Internal Audit Director. After completing her degrees at McCombs, Anna gained 15 years of experience in information systems auditing. Prior to working at Facebook, Anna served as a Sr. Manager at Deloitte, where she conducted internal audit risk assessments, formulations, and executed annual internal Audit plans.

Linda Guerrero Deicla (BBA ’01 & MPA ’01) was promoted to general manager at KGBT-TV. Prior to joining KGBT-TV, Deicla worked as a tax associate for Arthur Andersen in San Antonio and as a staff accountant for BFI Waste Services of Texas in the Valley. She also served as an adjunct accounting professor at South Texas College, where she taught introduction to financial and managerial accounting.

Jim Heatherington (MPA ’71) was honored with the 2015 Rick Kells Outstanding Tax Professional Award from the Oklahoma Society of Certified Public Accountants (OSCPA). He has served on its Small Firm Practitioners Committee and is a past Chairman of the Taxation Committee, which he has served on for nearly 20 years. He is a 2007 Gold Pen Award winner, a 2011 Silver Pen Award winner and has authored numerous taxation articles for the society’s magazine, CPAFOCUS. Additionally, he served as Chairman for the Annual Oklahoma Tax Institute in 1991, 1993, 1995 and 2001.