Deans

Daisy Hurst Floyd, B.A., M.A., J.D.
Dean, Walter F. George School of Law

Daisy Hurst Floyd has served as dean and professor of Law at Mercer University’s Walter F. George School of Law since July of 2004. She received a B.A. summa cum laude and M.A. in Political Science from Emory University and a J.D. from the University of Georgia School of Law, where she served as articles editor of the Georgia Law Review. Dean Floyd came to Mercer from Texas Tech University School of Law, where she was a member of the faculty from 1990-2004, serving as associate dean for Academic Affairs for six and one-half years.

Dean Floyd’s teaching and research interests include Civil Procedure, Evidence, Legal Writing, other litigation-related topics, and legal education, particularly the development of professional identity in law students. She was the recipient of several teaching awards at Texas Tech, including the Phi Alpha Delta Professor of the Year Award; the New Professor Excellence in Teaching Award; and the President's Excellence in Teaching Award.
Dean Floyd was named a Carnegie Scholar by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 2001. More recently, she served as a member of the Carnegie Foundation’s Life of the Mind for Practice Seminar, which focused on the relationship between liberal education and professional education and whose findings are discussed in the recently-published book, A New Agenda for Higher Education: Shaping a Life of the Mind for Practice (Jossey-Bass 2008).

Dean Floyd has been a recent member of the American Bar Association Presidential Council on Diversity in the Legal Profession and currently serves on the State Bar of Georgia Diversity Committee. She is member of Phi Beta Kappa and Order of the Coif, an elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, the Texas Bar Foundation, and the Georgia Lawyers Foundation, and a member of the State Bars of Georgia and Texas. More>