Ruth Blackburn

Ruth is a Senior Associate at FRA in the Forensic Accounting team. While at FRA, Ruth has worked in a variety of practice areas including litigation support, gain calculations, compliance monitorships, and fraud risk assessment matters. ​

Ruth is currently supporting the DOJ-appointed compliance monitorship for Balfour Beatty Communities LLC, one of the largest providers of privatized military housing to the US Armed Forces, following its role in connection with a scheme to defraud the US military. In this matter, Ruth has primarily performed transaction testing, document review, and various analyses, and is part of the Training & Guidance workstream. Additionally, she recently assisted a team engaged to provide forensic support to the defense counsel for an employee facing charges in a high-profile corruption matter prosecuted by the US government.​

Prior to joining FRA, Ruth worked as a staff accountant in the construction industry, where she completed monthly interim financial reporting and comprehensive job cost analyses. While in this role, Ruth also designed and implemented new processes for verifying material pricing in accordance with supplier pricing agreements and investigated discrepancies, resulting in cost savings to the company.​

Ruth is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) licensed in the State of Texas with a Master of Science in Accounting from the University of Texas at Dallas and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from Schreiner University.​