Meet Our Team
For over 25 years, Littlefield, Fanning & Co., P.S. has been providing quality, personalized financial guidance to local individuals and businesses.
Littlefield, Fanning & Co., P.S. supports its staff by respecting the goals, aspirations, and contributions of each person. The firm insists that employees pursue life-long learning in their professions and supports this requirement. In these ways, we attract and retain outstanding staff who contribute quality, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Dwight Littlefield
CPA Principal
Dwight provides a blend of tax planning, tax compliance, business consulting, and business perspective only years of real world experience can give for closely held and family-owned companies, and the individuals who own them. It is a passion and desire for an understanding of how successful businesses operate in a changing economy that keeps him focused on client issues.
For several years, Dwight worked for Pricewaterhouse Coopers as a director in their Washington DC national tax office. This rare combination of experience working with closely held and family owned businesses and deep tax knowledge has proven invaluable in his work serving these companies. He serves business clients in industries one would expect to find in the Pacific Northwest such as real estate, construction, technology, distribution. He also serves ones not typically found in the Pacific Northwest like oil and gas.
When the work is done anything outdoors is fair game including hiking, skiing, or tennis with his wife Jennifer, their three children, and friends.
Dawn Fanning
CPA Principal
Dawn has 23 years of public accounting and bookkeeping experience for small to large-sized businesses as well as nine years of accounting experience with private companies. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration with an emphasis in Accounting from University of Washington, Tacoma in December 2007.
Dawn is a member of the Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Dawn is passionate about advising and assisting clients with a variety of business and tax matters. She specializes in accounting and tax services including: business management strategies, business succession planning, nonprofit taxes, Reviewed Financial Statements and compilations. She enjoys taking the time to get to know her clients and their needs.
In her off-time she enjoys spending time with family, motorcycle riding with her husband, and volunteering for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
Chris Olcott
Director of Operations
Chris is your first resource at LFC to get an update on your account, billing questions, etc.
She joined Littlefield, Fanning & Co. in January 2017 as our Receptionist and was promoted to Office Manager later that year.
Chris has worked as an Administrative Assistant for over 10 years and enjoys engaging with clients to help build a good working relationship between our firm and our clients.
Chris moved to Washington State in 2011 and now proudly calls the PNW home with her 2 children. In her spare-time she loves to explore and spend time supporting her kids in their extra-curricular activities.
Kendra Brooks
Payroll Administrator
Call Kendra when you need help setting up and running your payroll. She can help when you just have one employee all the way to hundreds of employees in multiple states.
Kendra has 15 years of payroll experience, in which she has worked with the Service Industries, Steel Manufacturing, along with possessing a working knowledge in the Construction, Trucking and Agriculture industries.
Kendra feels strongly about customer service and makes it a point of being available to her clients for all of their payroll needs.
Outside of work Kendra is with her family and pets.
Bob Crumley
Director – Special Tax Services
Bob, after nearly 30 years of obtain R&D tax credits his decades of experience will help your company get all the R&D and ERC tax credits you are entitled to.
Bob joined LFCO a little over a year ago in 2021 as the Leader of our Special Tax Services group focusing on credits and incentives, notably R&D and ERC Tax Credits. Bob’s primary responsibilities include identifying and qualifying companies with the potential to enjoy these and other tax incentives. Bob brings over 30 years of accounting and business experience to our firm, with more than twenty-five years dedicated to Research & Development tax credit consulting across a wide array of industry: aerospace, pharmaceutical, medical implement, oil and gas, transportation, manufacturing, software and construction. Bob, along with Dwight, began his careers with PwC (then Coopers & Lybrand) and has held positions with other R&D consulting and tax advisory firms. Bob maintains a Six Sigma Green Belt and has a MSA in taxation and BBA in accounting from Texas Tech University. Not strictly business, Bob enjoys golf, tennis, coaching youth sports, preparing a great meal afterwards and a newfound diversion hiking. Photographing all of it along the way, usually with his children Bobby and Vivian at his side.
Laura Black
EA Principal
She is an Enrolled Agent which allows her to represent clients before the Internal Revenue Service. She has an Associates of Applied Science degree in Accounting from Montana State University.
Laura has over 16 years of experience in public accounting and 8 years of experience in accounting for small businesses. Laura is experienced with tax preparation for small business, personal taxes and estates & trusts. She also assists client with QuickBooks and accounting set up, monthly accounting and payroll.
In her off time, Laura enjoys spending time with her family and pets; they enjoy camping, hiking and riding four wheelers.
Sandie Alexander
Office Manager
A graduate of Pacific Lutheran University with a Bachelor’s of Business Administration.
Payroll and accounting experience with a multi-national food company
20 years of Marketing experience, including office management, test administration, focus groups, and presenting marketing plans for an international company.
Joined LFCO in 2021 seeking a welcomed and challenging career change.
In my spare time I enjoy hiking, gardening, reading, and spending time with my family.