• Earned bachelor’s degree from KU School of Business, 1985
• Member, former chair of KU School of Business Dean’s Board of Advisors
• KU School of Business Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, 2025
• Member of KU Endowment Board of Trustees

Diane Yetter is a strategist, advisor, speaker and author in the field of sales and use tax. Yetter, a certified public accountant (CPA), is the president and founder of YETTER Tax, a sales tax consulting and tax technology firm based in Chicago. She also is the founder of The Sales Tax Institute, which provides sales and use tax training for accounting and finance professionals and business owners. As one of the leading sales and use tax experts, Yetter has been named one of Accounting Today‘s 100 Most Influential People in Accounting for multiple years.

Before founding her company in 1996, Yetter was a state and local tax manager in the Chicago office of Arthur Andersen LLP, the sales and use tax director for the Quaker Oats Co., and a sales and use tax auditor for the Kansas Department of Revenue.

Yetter has served as a member of the KU School of Business Dean’s Advisory Board since 2006, including as chair from 2015 to 2017. She was elected as a trustee of the KU Endowment board in 2015 and is a life member of the KU Alumni Association.

She earned a bachelor’s in accounting and business administration from the University of Kansas in 1985 and a master’s in taxation from DePaul University in 1994.