INDIANAPOLIS -Auditor of State Connie K. Nass has been inducted into the Association of Government Accountants' Speaker Hall of Fame. The honor was awarded Monday, July 8, in Atlanta, Georgia at the AGA's 51st Annual Professional Development Conference and Exposition.

Auditor Nass is only the fourth person inducted into the Hall of Fame. The previous inductees are John J. Harme, former Deputy Secretary of Defense (1997-1999) and current Center for Strategic and International Studies scholar in Washington, D.C., Arizona State University business ethics professor and syndicated columnist Marianne M. Jennings, and District of Columbia Mayor Anthony A. Williams.

Auditor Nass attended the AGA's convention as a repeat keynote speaker. She addressed the convention in San Francisco in the year 2000. The title of this year's speech was Transforming the Government Accountant. Also delivering addresses to the Conference were United States Comptroller General David Walker, and NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe.

For 50 years, the AGA's Annual Professional Development Conference & Exposition has been the premier education and training conference for government financial managers and accountability professionals. The 2002 PDC covers the perspectives of all governments: federal, state and local. The conference theme for 2002 is Transforming the Government Enterprise, and the program is filled with dynamic sessions to help all financial managers deal with the challenges of working in a rapidly changing government environment.