Anita L. Holloway was appointed to the Board of Regents by Governor Kevin Stitt in February 2020. She is a licensed certified public accountant and partner with Ernst & Young (“EY”), a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services with over 400,000 employees in more than 150 countries. Within EY, Anita is one of eleven U.S. governing board members and serves on the firm’s Global Governance Council. She is also the partner-in-charge of world-wide audit and professional services to a Fortune 50 company and was previously the managing partner of EY’s Tulsa office. A native of Stuart, Oklahoma, she is a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation based in Shawnee, Oklahoma and currently calls Tulsa, Oklahoma home.
Anita is an avid and life-long Sooner who believes strongly in the impact of education. Through the University of Oklahoma Foundation, she established accounting and law academic scholarships nearly twenty years ago, and since joining the Board of Regents, established the Live On, University! Fund aimed at maintaining the beauty and integrity of campus, which she loves to walk when visiting her parents who now live in Norman, Oklahoma. She has endowed academic scholarships at three other Oklahoma universities, including Cameron University and Rogers State University (for which the Board of Regents also has supervisory responsibility). Anita has served on the Board of Advisors for each of the University of Oklahoma Price College of Business and the OU Price College Energy Institute and was a 2015 inductee into the University of Oklahoma Arthur B. Adams Society. She is a frequent guest lecturer for Price College and taught oil and gas accounting in Abu Dhabi, UAE at OU's Executive Management Program for Women in Energy. She has facilitated the use of EY’s London office space for the OU Energy Executive MBA study abroad since the program’s inception. A more than 30-year season ticket holder for OU athletics, Anita currently has season tickets for football, men’s basketball, softball, and baseball. She rarely misses a home game and has traveled extensively for away games, baseball and softball College World Series, Final Fours, bowl games, and National Championships. She also enjoys attending productions by OU’s University Theatre.
In other civic and charitable involvement, Anita has served on the board and as Treasurer of the Tulsa Regional Chamber of Commerce and on the board and Audit/Finance Committee for the Tulsa Area United Way. She has been recognized as an Oklahoma Woman of the Year – 50 Making a Difference honoree and a Native American Indigenous Leader Worth Watching. She is a graduate of Leadership Tulsa Class 48.
