Chief Financial Officer

Stephen Stewart, CPA has over 20 years of state government experience and has been involved with many key initiatives since he started with TxDOT in 2012. In his time at TxDOT, Stewart has held previous roles as manager of Financial Reporting, director of Accounting, and most recently director of the Financial Management Division. Within each of those roles, he has worked to collaborate with other districts, divisions, other state agencies, and industry partners to help meet the needs of TxDOT. One of the aspects that Stewart enjoys is the unique challenges we overcome daily at TxDOT.

Prior to coming to work at TxDOT, Stewart worked for the Comptroller of Public Accounts assisting in the production of the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the state of Texas where he gained insight and experience working with various agencies across the state. Aside from governmental accounting, he has also gained business and management experience from owning his own CPA firm which focused on bookkeeping and tax services. Prior to his accounting experiences, he worked at Texas State University in the information technology division as a network administrator and systems programmer where he was responsible for active directory authentication domains and various SAP, e-mail, and database server administration.