System-wide Internal Audit Staff

Batson has been TBR director of system-wide internal audit since Oct. 1, 2016, after 22 years as director of internal audit, fiscal analyst, and internal auditor at Tennessee State University. He joined state government in 1986 as a legislative auditor in the state comptroller’s office and left in 1993 for a year in the private sector before returning to state service at TSU in 1994. He holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Auburn University and is a certified public accountant.