Mary Anne Kennedy Reilly ’76
Mary Anne Reilly is a native of Columbus, Ohio. She matriculated at the University of Notre Dame as a member of the first class of women to attend the university. She graduated with high honors and began her accounting career in Chicago. After moving to Florida she started her 24-year career with Arthur Andersen in the Tampa tax practice. She was admitted to the partnership of Arthur Andersen and later assumed the leadership of Andersen’s Central Florida Tax Practice. Later she took over the leadership of the firm’s Federal Business Tax Practice for the state of Florida. After Andersen’s death in 2002, Reilly formed Reilly, Fisher & Solomon, P.A. with four other colleagues from Andersen.
Reilly has been very active in her adopted community and currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay, Foundation for a Drug Free America and Ace Academies. She is also on the advisory board of the College of Arts & Letters at the University of Notre Dame, the Kate Tiedemann College of Business at USF St. Petersburg and the Florida Holocaust Museum. Previously, she served as Chairman of the Board of Shorecrest Preparatory School, The All Children’s Hospital Foundation and the Tampa Bay Chapter of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Reilly has been active and served on the boards of The St. Petersburg YMCA, the St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce, the West Coast Chapter of the FICPA and the Leadership St. Pete Alumni Association. She was the recipient of the Legacy Award by the American Red Cross of Tampa Bay and the Tampa Bay Business Journal’s Up & Comers Award in accounting; received the Chancellor’s Award from USFSP, was honored by the YWCA for outstanding accomplishments in Business and Industry; was named Outstanding Accounting Alumna of the University of Notre Dame by the school’s chapter of Beta Alpha Psi; and was named Outstanding Woman graduate of the University of Notre Dame College of Business.
Reilly is married to Ross Roeder and has a daughter and son-in-law, Anne Michelle and Mathew Frey, and grandchildren, Catherine and John Frey.