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Tommy Malone Distinguished Chair in Trial Advocacy and Professor of Law
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Timothy W. Floyd is Tommy Malone Distinguished Chair in Trial Advocacy and Professor of Law. He teaches a variety of courses in criminal law, civil procedure, and legal ethics. Until 2023, he served as Director of Experiential Education at Mercer, supervising clinical and externship programs. Floyd has published three books and is the author of numerous articles in the area of legal ethics, law and religion, and criminal law and the death penalty. His most recent book is The Formation of Professional Identity: The Path from Student to Lawyer (with Patrick Longan and Daisy Hurst Floyd; second edition 2024). Floyd devotes much of his service to access to justice issues, and he has represented several defendants in death penalty cases, including the first person convicted under the Federal Death Penalty Act of 1994.
He received a B.A and M.A. from Emory University and his J.D from the University of Georgia, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Georgia Law Review. He previously taught at the University of Georgia School of Law, where he was Director of the Legal Aid Clinic, and at Texas Tech University School of Law, where he was the J. Hadley Edgar Professor of Law and Co-Director of Clinical Programs.
