These have included management accounting, EDP auditing, and Information Technology Management. His university career includes stints as MPA Adviser, Accounting Department Chair, and Accounting Graduate Adviser. He advises MPA and PPA students in the MPA and PPA Information Technology Track. He is a member of the Texas State Board of Public Accounting, which regulates the public accounting profession in Texas.
Summers is a native of Houston, Texas.
He attended Lamar High School and Rice University there. His spouse, Kathy, is a watercolor artist. Summers' extracurricular activities include jogging, chores at the family's Grassyville Fire Ant Farm near Giddings, reading, and improving his Spanish.