Janet Dutcher

Janet Dutcher has been a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) for 37 years and a Certified Government Finance Manager (CGFM) for ten years. She has spent most of her career collaborating with local California agencies on their financial accounting and reporting processes. Janet became the Finance Director of Mono County in May 2016, where she oversees the Auditor-Controller and the Treasurer-Tax Collector functions and eleven employees. Prior to her current role, Dr. Dutcher was the assistant county administrative officer to budget and finance for Alpine County in California from 2015 to 2016, as well as a senior finance officer for the county from 2012 until 2014. Janet manages County finances including accounting, reporting, budgeting, investing, and tax billing and collection. She has a prominent role in the County’s annual budget process, including policy development and frequently reports on the topics of budget and finance to the County’s Board of Supervisors. She oversees the external audit process where under her leadership in both counties she improved the completeness of the closing process, eliminated the outsourcing of the annual ACFR and brought the preparation of the financial reports in-house.
Before 2012, Janet was an audit manager with a top 100 CPA firm where she specialized in audits of California counties, cities, and districts. During her time in public accounting, she supervised and trained audit staff, performed quality control reviews, led training sessions for clients and staff, and presented topics of interest at industry conferences.
Janet is a May 1986 California State University Sacramento graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting. In December 2019, she received her master’s in public administration from CSU, Northridge. She graduated from West Chester University, Pennsylvania, with a Doctorate in Public Administration in December 2023. Her dissertation title is “Evaluating Assertiveness, Support, and Gameplay Patterns by California Rural County Departments in Acquiring Budgetary Resources.”
Janet Dutcher is an active member of the California State Association of County Auditors, currently serving as its secretary. In 2025, Janet Dutcher was included in Marquis Who’s Who biographical publication and was recently selected as a Top Director of the Year in Finance 2025 by the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP) for her outstanding leadership, dedication, and commitment to the industry.