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…