Governmental & Not-For-Profit Ask the Experts Panel

Shannon is the Chief Executive Officer at Cempa Community Care, a health center based in East Tennessee. She holds a master's in Business Administration, is a Certified Public Accountant in Tennessee, and has participated in numerous continuing education programs, including the Health Care Executive Program offered by the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Under her leadership, the organization has expanded access to the medically underserved, enhanced operational efficiency, achieved numerous programmatic goals, and was named Nonprofit of the Year and Best Place to Work in 2022.

With an entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for people impacted by the work that Cempa provides, she continues to make an impact by serving on local, regional, and national boards, educating around compliance, and providing mentorship and training opportunities across the country. As a doctoral candidate at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Shannon is currently working on her dissertation, which focuses on the financial impact of health policies on safety net providers.

Jerry is an Assistant Director for the State of Tennessee, Comptroller of the Treasury, Division of Local Government Audit. The division has statutory responsibility for audits of approximately 1600 local governments and related organizations in Tennessee. Many of these governments are subject to the Single Audit Act and OMB's Uniform Guidance.

A 37-year veteran of the division, Jerry has served as an auditor, audit supervisor, training instructor, technical manager, and assistant director. In his role as assistant director, he is responsible for developing professional compliance procedures and monitoring the division's quality performance under GASB, AICPA, OMB, and GAO accounting and auditing standards. Jerry also has responsibility for supervising the peer review process, responding to professional public comment documents, and the contract audit review process within the division.

Jerry was selected for the AGA National Educator award for 2019. In addition, Jerry teaches the Yellow Book and Audit Findings training classes for the Tennessee Department of Audit. Jerry has been selected as Department of Audit Instructor of the Year four times.

Jerry has made training presentations for numerous professional organizations including NASACT, GFOA, AGA, and others; state auditor and state accounting organizations; and local governments. He currently serves on several working committees for professional organizations.

Sturtevant presently serves as the Contract Audit Review Manager for the Division of Local Government Audit, for the Office of the Comptroller of the Treasury of the State of Tennessee. His duties include monitoring contracted governmental audits, which encompasses the desk review of all contracted audited financial statements and review of audit working papers for selected audits. As the review manager, he also provides technical assistance to audit staff and CPA firms who audit entities for the division. He is a past committee member of the Department of Audit Advisory Committee on Training, and for several years was an in-house instructor.

Sturtevant is degreed from the University of Kentucky and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Business Administration from Austin Peay State University. He lives in Kingston Springs, Tennessee with his wife, Nancy, a retired Davidson County High School teacher and currently an adjunct professor for Vanderbilt University. They have a son, Bryan, who is married to Allison Miller, and a grandson, Charlie.

Jean is the contract audit review manager with the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury, Division of Local Government Audit. She is responsible for the contract audit review process of more than 1,700 entities including municipalities, county-related entities, utility districts, public housing authorities, internal school funds, charter schools, quasi-governments and certain nonprofit and for-profit entities. Her daily responsibilities include providing technical assistance to CPA firms and local government officials regarding accounting and auditing issues, as well as related laws, regulations and other compliance requirements.

Jean graduated from Seoul National University with a B.S. degree in Horticulture and studied accounting at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and the Tennessee Technological University. Jean is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), and Certified Government Financial Manager (CGFM). She is a member of the Association of Government Accountants (AGA), and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). She is a graduate of Lead Tennessee and the Tennessee Government Management Institute. She likes to play the piano and make fresh flower arrangements in her free time.