Professor Patricia Libby is chair of the department of accounting and an associate professor of accounting at Ithaca College, where she teaches the undergraduate financial accounting course. Pat previously taught undergraduate and graduate financial accounting at the University of Texas and Eastern Michigan University. Before entering academia, she was an auditor with Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) and a financial administrator at the University of Chicago. Dr. Libby received her B.S. from Pennsylvania State University, her M.B.A from DePaul University, and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan; she also successfully completed her CPA.

She has published articles in Issues in Accounting Education, The Accounting Review, and The Michigan CPA and is also a faculty advisor to the Ithaca College Accounting Association and Beta Alpha Psi.