Pecarich earns Dixon award.

• Position: AICPA TAX DIVISION

CalCPA member Pamela J. Pecarich is this year's recipient of the Arthur J. Dixon Memorial Award, the highest award given by the accounting profession in the area of taxation. The award is given by the Tax Division of the AICPA.

Among the positions Pecarich has held are chief policy analyst for the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee; staff director for the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight; director of the Office of Policy and Planning at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and committee staff consultant to the California State Assembly's Committee on Revenue and Taxation.

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She also has served as a member of the IRS Commissioner's Advisory Group.

As a partner and director of tax policy for Coopers & Lybrand LLP, National Tax Services, Pecarich had principal responsibility for monitoring and advising the firm and its clients on emerging federal tax issues and tax legislation.

For nearly two decades, Pecarich...