Education
Lycoming College.
assistant head Comptroller General chief
Lycoming College.
From October 1, 2000 until March 12, 2008 he was the Chief Operating Officer (chief operating officer) of the General Accounting Office and he held the equivalent 2nd-in-command title before the late 2000 restructuring of the General Accounting Office, Principal Assistant Comptroller General, a title he had held since May 1999. (Note that this change of titles is a result of the organization-wide restructuring rather than a promotion or other event in his career. From May 1999 through to March 12, 2008 Dodaro retained the position of second in command of the General Accounting Office) On February 15, 2008 when the seventh Comptroller General of the United States, David M. Walker, announced that he was departing from his office before the end of his 15-year term to work for the The Peter G. Peterson Foundation, he appointed Dodaro to replace him.
On March 13, 2008 Dodaro became the Acting Comptroller General and was confirmed by the United States. Senate for a term of fifteen years on December 22, 2010.
Gene is the son of Jim and Betty Dodaro and grew up in the Monessen—Belle Vernon region of Pennsylvania, attending Belle Vernon Area High School where he played basketball. He attended Lycoming College in Pennsylvania and graduated in 1973 receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in accounting.
On May 4th, 2014, Dodaro delivered the Commencement Speech for his alma mater, Lycoming College. Mr. Dodaro joined the General Accounting Office in 1973.
His first executive posting was as an associate director for management issues in the General Government Division.
In 1993 he was named Assistant Comptroller General for Accounting and Information Management. lieutenant was in 1999 that he became the General Accounting Office"s second in command.
In 1981 Dodaro received the General Accounting Office"s Meritorious Service Award. In 1989 he received the Arthur S. Flemming Award for outstanding individual performance in government. In 2001 he became a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and in 2003 was awarded the prestigious National Public Service Award conferred by that organization. Mr. Dodaro is also an alumnus of the Psi chapter of the national social fraternity Kappa Delta Rho at Lycoming College.
