Bio:
Daisy Hurst Floyd is University Professor of Law and Ethical Formation. She served as Dean and Professor of Law from 2004 until 2010. Before coming to Mercer, Professor Floyd was a member of the faculty at Texas Tech University School of Law from 1990-2004, serving during part of that time as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. 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 Presidents Excellence in Teaching Award.
Professor Floyd 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.
Professor Floyd’s teaching and research interests include Civil Procedure, Evidence, Legal Writing, Ethics, and Legal Education. She has a particular interest in the ways in which higher education shapes students’ ethical development and in the possibilities for cross-disciplinary collaboration within higher education. Professor Floyd was named a Carnegie Scholar by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 2001 and more recently 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. Professor Floyd’s work and the findings of the seminar are discussed in the recently-published book, A New Agenda for Higher Education: Shaping a Life of the Mind for Practice (Jossey-Bass 2008).
Professor Floyd has been a 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, is an elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, the Texas Bar Foundation, and the Georgia Lawyers Foundation, and is a member of the State Bars of Georgia and Texas.
