John Mikesell [October 23, 1942- September 12, 2019], Chancellor’s Professor, Indiana University, Paul H. O’Neill School of Public & Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, was an expert in governmental finance, specializing in sales and property tax policy and public budgeting systems. He received his B.A. from Wabash College (1964) and both his M.A. (1965) and Ph.D. (1969) in economics from the University of Illinois-Urbana. He was the co-editor (1989-1994) and then editor (1997-2011) of Public Budgeting & Finance. He served on the Indiana State Revenue Forecast Technical Committee, on several state tax studies, on missions for the World Bank, as the Chief Fiscal Economist assisting the Ukraine Ministry of Finance (1995), and as resident director on the fiscal reform mission in the Russian Federation (1998-1999). In addition to multiple articles almost yearly, he wrote the widely adopted textbook, Fiscal Administration (1984 to tenth edition in 2018; co-author for the 11th Edition) and, with his former major professor, Sales Taxation: State and Local Structure and Administration (1983). His recognitions include election as ABFM President (1992) and he received the Gold Award from NTA/APPAM (2015) and the Sagamore of the Wabash (2016).