Sandra Waller Shelton (1954-2021)[1] was an American economist, specializing in auditing and accounting.
[2] Shelton attended Hamilton High School and was a 1976 graduate of Rhodes College, where she majored in economics.
She completed a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Wisconsin in 1994,[5] and joined the De Paul faculty.
[6] The PhD Project, a non-profit organization whose goal is to bring minority students back to academia as professors, listed Shelton in their hall of fame in 2014.
[5] In 2017 the Rhodes College Black Student Association gave Shelton their Distinguished Alumni Award.