Lowell S. Broom
Chair, Department of Accounting and Information Systems, Professor of Accounting
205-726-4635
lbroom@samford.edu
Dwight Beeson Hall
Lowell Broom joins Samford University’s Brock School of Business from the University of Alabama at Birmingham where he served as Associate Dean of UAB’s Business School. At the Brock School of Business he will oversee the Department of Accounting and Management Information Systems.
Lowell brings a wealth of experience to the students at the Brock School of Business. Early in his career he was a part of the Professional Audit Staff at Ernst & Young in Jackson, Miss. He began his teaching career at Louisiana Tech University in 1976. Lowell also has served as a consultant to a local housing authority regarding various issues related to proper financial reporting under the requirements of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board. He also has served as an expert witness in nine litigation cases involving accounting and auditing issues. One of his cases involved securities fraud related to the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934. He has written or co-written a number of publications on Accounting on topics ranging from the application of generally accepted accounting and auditing standards to ethical conduct to fraud detection.
During the 74 months that Lowell served as associate dean at UAB, he served on a number of university committees and was involved in several initiatives as a representative of the School of Business. During his tenure at UAB he worked extensively on the technology infrastructure of the School of Business. He also re-established the Executive Education Program and developed an International Program in which students studied under the direction of professors in Europe and China.
In 2004, Lowell was appointed by Gov. Bob Riley to serve as a technical advisor to the Small Business Committee of the Governor’s Black Belt Action Committee. The committee was responsible for developing and implementing a plan to promote economic growth and improve the quality of life in Alabama’s Black Belt. In 2007, he was appointed by Gov. Bob Riley as the Chair of the Economic Development Committee for Region 3 (Central Alabama) of the Rural Alabama Action Commission. That commission was responsible for implementing economic development opportunities in the rural areas of a seven county in North Central Alabama.
Lowell is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, American Accounting Association, the Alabama Society of Certified Public Accountants and the Institute of Management Accountants.
Lowell , his wife, Redonda, and his two daughters and a son live in the Birmingham area.
Faculty & Staff
Administration
- Beck A. Taylor
Dean, Professor of Economics - James P. Reburn
Associate Dean, Professor of Accounting - Barbara Cartledge
Director of Undergraduate Programs - Larron C. Harper
Director of Graduate Programs - Kara Kennedy
Director of External Affairs - Robert Blakely
Advancement Officer - Franz Lohrke
Chair, Department of Entrepreneurship, Management and Marketing - Thomas W. Woolley
Chair, Department of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis, Professor of Statistics - John Knapp
University Professor and Mann Family Professor of Ethics and Leadership and Director, Frances Marlin Mann Center for Ethics and Leadership - Lowell S. Broom
Chair, Department of Accounting & Management Information Systems, Professor of Accounting - Bruce Nichols
Director, Executive Education - Carrie Anna Pearce
Director, Academic Internship Program - John M. Venable
Assistant Professor of Finance, Director, Bulldog Investment Fund - Ivy Alexander
Department Secretary-Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis - Doshia Bennett
Secretary to the Dean - C. Hope Dahlke
Executive Assistant to the Dean and Chief of Staff - Kathey Gassner
Program Assistant - Undergraduate Programs - Yolanda Long
Assistant to the Associate Dean - Lucy Phillips
Program Assistant - Graduate and Executive Education Programs - Ginger Robertson
Department Secretary - Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Management Department - Azalea Hulbert
Department Secretary - Accounting and Management Information Systems - Sherri Brown
Academic Advisor Undergraduate Programs
Department of Accounting & Management Information Sytems
- James P. Reburn
Associate Dean, Professor of Accounting - Lowell S. Broom
Chair, Department of Accounting & Management Information Systems, Professor of Accounting - William H. Belski
Assistant Professor of Accounting - Sharon S. Jackson
Assistant Professor of Business - Cynthia Frownfelter-Lohrke
Professor of Management Information Systems - Dennis W. Price
Assistant Professor of Accounting - Douglas L. Smith
Associate Professor of Accounting
Department of Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
- Thomas W. Woolley
Chair, Department of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis, Professor of Statistics - Beck A. Taylor
Dean, Professor of Economics - Jennings B. Marshall
Professor of Economics - Jeremy Thornton
Assistant Professor, Coordinator of Social Entrepreneurship Program - Melissa Woodley
Assistant Professor of Finance - Sara Helms
Assistant Professor of Economics
Department of Entrepreneurship, Management & Marketing
- Barbara Cartledge
Director of Undergraduate Programs - Larron C. Harper
Director of Graduate Programs - Franz T. Lohrke
Chair, Department of Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Management - John M. Venable
Director, The Community Banking School at Samford University and Assistant Professor of Finance - Charles M. (Chad) Carson
Assistant Professor - Betsy Holloway
Associate Professor of Marketing and Hackney Family Research Fellow - Steven T. Jones
Associate Professor of Finance - Archie Lockamy, III
Margaret Gage Bush Professor of Business and Professor of Operations Management - David L. Loudon
Professor of Marketing - Robert W. Service
- Darin White
Professor of Management
- Dr. Marlene M. Reed
