Kim Wallin is a native Nevadan and is the first CPA to be elected to the office of State Controller in 50 years.  She is the first CMA (Certified Management Accountant) to hold this office. 

Kim is currently a member of the XBRL International Public Sector Work Group, a member of the AGA Partnership for Intergovernmental Management and Accountability Steering Committee and is a Director on the NASC Executive Committee.  In addition she is a member of the AICPA, NSCPA, NASACT and AGA. 

In September 2003, Accounting Today recognized Wallin as one of the 100 most influential people in accounting in the country.  In September 2006 she was named “Woman CPA of the Year” of the entire country by the American Women’s Society of CPA’s.   

Kim is the former Chair of the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to empowering management accounting and finance professionals to drive business performance. 

Kim was nominated from the floor and elected by popular vote as IMA’s president-elect for the 2002-03 term.  This was the only time in the then 83-year history of IMA that a president-elect was chosen in this manner.   Wallin served as Chair of IMA for the 2003-2004 tenure.  

She served for two years on the Ethics Committee of the Nevada Society of CPA’s (NSCPA).  

She is President of her own Las Vegas based accounting firm, D K Wallin, Ltd which she founded in 1984.  Previously, she worked for Joseph F. Zerga, Ltd. 

Wallin graduated from UNLV with a degree in Business Administration with a major in accounting.  

Kim has been active with local service and volunteer organizations.  She has been President of Soroptimist International of Creative Las Vegans and has served as the Treasurer for the Opus Dance Ensemble and the Actors Repertory Theatre.   

Kim’s hobbies include wine tasting and gourmet cooking.  She also enjoys working out, golf, skiing, hiking and even has a black belt in Aikido!