Jeri K. Seidman

Jeri K Seidman is a Professor in the Accounting Area at the McIntire School of Commerce. She served as Chair of the Faculty Senate of the University of Virginia for the 2025-26 academic year. 

Professor Seidman has expertise in income tax and financial reporting. Her research focuses on federal income taxation of firms, including the effect of changes in tax rates on firms’ financial reporting of income taxes, constraints against international income tax minimization, and strategic interactions between revenue authorities and firms. 

Professor Seidman’s work has been published in top accounting journals such as Journal of Accounting and Economics; The Accounting Review; and Contemporary Accounting Research; and she previously served on the editorial board of The Journal of the American Taxation Association.

Professor Seidman was a faculty member at The University of Texas at Austin for seven years before joining the McIntire School of Commerce in 2015. At The University of Texas, she taught Introduction to Taxation and was awarded the McCombs School of Business CBA Foundation Teaching Award for Assistant Professors. At McIntire, Professor Seidman has taught classes including Intermediate Accounting, Taxes and Business Strategy, and Advanced Corporate Taxation to both undergraduate and Masters of Accounting students. 

Professor Seidman grew up in St. Louis, MO, and earned bachelors degrees in Management Science and Accounting and a Masters in Accountancy from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She worked for Deloitte & Touche for five years in various roles related to income taxation, including income tax compliance and corporate income tax software consulting, before earning her Ph.D. from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute in Technology. Professor Seidman holds an Ohio CPA certification. 

Professor Seidman is a member of the Board of Governors of the Colonnade Club, UVA’s faculty club, where she previously served as President and Vice President. She and her husband, Josh, are the parents of a fourth-year COMM student and a sophomore at the University of Vermont.