In Memoriam Katie Jaques
Katie Jaques
Kathryn (Katie) Jaques, 84, passed away suddenly on Saturday March 6, 2021. Katie
was a long-time accounting lecturer for the Charles W. Lamden School of Accountancy
in the Fowler College of Business at San Diego State University. After many years
of teaching at SDSU, Katie just wrapped up her class, Multijurisdictional Tax (ACCTG
656) this past December, though she had planned to teach during the fall semester
of 2021.
“She was the ying of multistate taxation to my yang of US international tax. We both had a passion for the areas we were teaching and Katie's experience and expertise in multistate taxation goes back many, many years,” said SDSU accounting lecturer, Narelle MacKenzie. “I am forever meeting people in San Diego who learned about state taxes from Katie. The Aztec community has lost a very valuable faculty member who had a positive impact on so many of our graduate students.”
Katie’s teaching career at SDSU started in 1981 when an SDSU accounting professor, the late Gene Whittenburg, called her to see if she would be interested in teaching a course on California state income tax. She was already working as a tax consultant at the time, she agreed to teach one course during the fall semester. She continued to teach at SDSU until a brief retirement in 2017, however, she returned to teach for the 2019 and 2020 fall semesters. She had also been an active volunteer at the AARP TaxAide program at the Joan B. Kroc Center in San Diego since 2010, which provides free tax assistance and preparation to elderly and low-income residents.
A 1958 graduate of Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, Katie also took tax and accounting courses at SDSU in late 1970’s prior to becoming a member of the faculty. She worked at Arthur Andersen’s San Diego office for 13 years before retiring from the firm in 2001. Prior to that, she served for seven years as a tax auditor and audit supervisor with the California Franchise Tax Board.
Katie is survived by her daughters Barbara and Valerie.
