Allison Ballard
West Virginia Managing Partner
Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP
SAMANTHA CART
Photo by Chris Gosses Photography.
ALLISON BALLARD can’t remember a time when she wasn’t
participating in some type of sport. Now the West Virginia
managing partner at Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP (DHG),
she recognizes that athletics helped shape the competitiveness,
ambition, teamwork skills and commitment to equality she
uses as an accountant and company leader.
Growing up, Ballard played basketball, volleyball and soft-
ball. She went on to serve as captain of Washington and Lee
University’s first intercollegiate basketball team. Today, she
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is an avid trail runner who hopes to one day qualify for the
Boston Marathon.
“Having played competitive sports, the drive to focus on
identifying and achieving a team goal and the willingness to
do what is best for the team to achieve that goal have influ-
enced my success,” she says. “My competitiveness helps me
with the confidence to achieve whatever the goal is, my drive
to succeed means that I’m willing to do what is necessary to
make it happen, and team-oriented thinking means I know