Cameron University
Phone: 580.581.2946
E-mail: sylviab@cameron.edu
Dr. Sylvia M. Burgess currently serves as associate vice president for academic affairs, equal opportunity officer and associate professor of business. She recently moved into this position after serving seven years as dean of the School of Business at Cameron University. She teaches tax, business law, employment law, legal issues in human resource management and business communications. In addition to her responsibilities as associate vice president and equal opportunity officer, she provides annual training to faculty regarding legal developments in higher education, particularly in the areas of intellectual property and discrimination.
Prior to joining Cameron, Burgess practiced tax, estate planning, corporate and banking law for 15 years with the Lawton law firm Burgess, Burgess, Burgess and Hightower.
Burgess has a bachelor's degree from Cameron, a law degree from the University of Oklahoma, and a master's in tax law from Southern Methodist University.
Burgess is very active in community business development. She currently serves as chairman of the Lawton Fort Sill Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the board of directors for the Oklahoma Academy of State Goals. She was the first woman president of the Comanche County Bar Association and the first woman to chair the Oklahoma Bar Association Tax Section. She has published research in scholarly journals and has served on the boards of numerous charitable organizations in the Lawton-Fort Sill community. She serves as chair of the Investment Committee for the International Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, responsible for investment of almost $35 million dollars in endowments. She received the 2005 and 2006 Distinguished Administrator Award from the U.S. Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship. In March 2005, she was inducted as a member of the Oxford Round Table, at Oxford University, England, where she also presented a lecture on the Equal Pay Act for roundtable debate and discussion.
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