Hope M. Pendergrass, CPA, is a Partner with Mauldin & Jenkins, LLC. She graduated from Wesleyan College in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting and joined Mauldin & Jenkins immediately thereafter. Her expertise covers a wide variety of state and local governments.

She is a member of the American Institute of CPA’s, the Georgia Society of CPAs, the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) and is involved in the Georgia Government Finance Officers Association.  She also serves on the GFOA's Special Review Committee and performs reviews of Annual Comprehensive Financial Reports as part of GFOA’s Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting Program. Hope holds the AICPA Advanced Single Audit Certificate after passing the AICPA Advanced Single Audit Exam. Hope has also been appointed by the AICPA to serve on the AICPA’s Governmental Audit Quality Center’s (GAQC) Executive Committee beginning May 2022. She also serves as the firm's lead compliance audit technical partner.

Hope enjoys community service work and has volunteered with various organizations in the middle Georgia area including United Way of Central Georgia, Distinguished Young Women of Monroe and Bibb Counties, and Wesleyan College.

Hope and her husband, Derrick, live in Macon with their son, Corbin.