Finch Named Business School Dean

J. Howard Finch has been named dean of Samford University’s Brock School of Business, effective July 1.

Finch’s appointment was announced by J. Bradley Creed, Samford’s provost and executive vice president. The selection follows a nationwide search to replace Beck A. Taylor, who resigned in May 2010 to become president of Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash.

Finch currently is Alico Chair of Financial Management and Planning at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) in Fort Myers, where he has taught since 2000. A native of Dothan, Finch holds a bachelor of business administration degree from North Georgia College & State University in Dahlonega, a master of business administration degree from Mercer University in Macon, Ga., and master of arts and doctor of philosophy degrees in finance from the University of Alabama.