Ruth Bartlett, an audit partner at Frazier & Deeter in Atlanta, has been named the 74th president of the University of Georgia Alumni Association. Her two-year term began on July 1.
A 1976 graduate of UGA, Bartlett has been in public accounting for more than 35 years, joining Frazier & Deeter in 1990. She became the first female partner and served as the head of the firm’s audit department for more than 15 years. She was the first female president of the Georgia Society of CPAs and the first woman to receive the organization’s Meritorious Service Award. She has been on the Georgia chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s board of trustees for more than 20 years.
As part of her responsibilities as president, Bartlett also joins the UGA Foundation Board of Trustees and the UGA Athletic Association Board of Advisors.