 J. Stanley Marshall
Email: Dr. Marshall is the founder of The James Madison Institute and, from 1987 to 2000, served as its President and CEO. He now serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Dr. Marshall served on the Florida State University faculty from 1958 to 1976. He was appointed head of the Department of Science Education and Adjunct Professor of Physics in 1958, became Associate Dean of the College of Education in 1965, Dean of the College in 1967, and assumed the presidency of the University in 1969. He retired from the presidency in August 1976.
In 1978, Marshall founded Sonitrol of Tallahassee, Inc., and operated the company for ten years. Sonitrol is engaged in electronic security and fire protection of businesses and residences in the Tallahassee area.
Dr. Marshall presently serves as a trustee of the Florida State University and as chair of the board of trustees of Bethune Cookman College in Dayton Beach, Florida. He also serves on the board of directors (and as a past president) of the Southern Scholarship Foundation, A Charter Foundation, The Council of Volunteer Reading Tutors, Inc. and is a member of the Advisory Board of The American Studies Institute of Harding University. He also serves as a director of Children’s Education Opportunity Foundation of Central Florida.
Dr. Marshall has in the past served as Chairman of the Leon County United Way and as a member of the board of directors of The Tallahassee Memorial Regional Medical Center and The Tallahassee Area Chamber of Commerce. He also served as president of the Deeb Scholarship Foundation and as Chairman of PEN of Florida, Inc. He and his family are members of Trinity United Methodist Church in Tallahassee, and Dr. Marshall has held various leadership positions in the church.
Services to education include serving as Director of the National Science High School Project of Turkey in which he led a group of American and Turkish science educators in the establishment of the National High School of Science for gifted students in Turkey; consultant in education to the governments of nine countries in the Middle and Far East; and he has authored or co-authored several books and numerous articles in professional journals.
At Florida State University, Dr. Marshall was named Omicron Delta Kappa’s "Man of the Year" and was recipient of the University’s Gold Key Award.
In 1995, Dr. Marshall was one of nine members of the Florida Commission on Cabinet Reform. He was appointed in 1997 as one of thirty-seven members of the Florida Constitution Revision Commission.
Dr. Marshall was the Founding Editor of the Journal of Research in Science Teaching and served as an advisor to Encyclopedia Britannica Films, the National Science Foundation, and the U. S. Department of Education. He served as President of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, Southern Region. He served for five years on advisory boards to both the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of the Army, was a member of the Board of Regents of The National Library of Medicine, and is a Fellow of The American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Dr. Marshall earned the Bachelor of Science degree from Slippery Rock State College (now University) in 1947, and the Masters and Ph.D. degrees from Syracuse University in 1950 and 1957 respectively.
He taught science and coached basketball and track at Mynderse Academy (a public high school) in Seneca Falls, New York, from 1947 to 1952. He served in the United States Army in Europe between 1943 and 1946.
Dr. Marshall was born in Cheswick, Pennsylvania, January 27, 1923. He is married to the former Shirley Slade of Longview, Texas. The Marshalls have five grown children and five grandchildren.
Dr. Marshall can be reached via email at jmi@jamesmadison.org or by phone at (850) 386-3131.
Select Works
- "July 2006 - The NEA's Unrepresentative Assembly," by J. Stanley Marshall, July 31, 2006
- "04/22/05 - Inclusionary Housing: What the Research Tells Us," by J. Stanley Marshall, April 22, 2005
- "Sometimes the United States must go it alone - July 20, 2004," by J. Stanley Marshall, July 20, 2004
- "Mary McLeod Bethune: a Florida Treasure," by J. Stanley Marshall, Tallahassee Democrat, February 29, 2004
- "03/01/03 - Higher Education in Florida: The Special Role of the Independent Colleges and," by J. Stanley Marshall, Curtis Leonard, Philip Porter and Thomas Watson, March 1, 2003
- "12/09/02 - Increasing Productivity in Florida's Public Schools: An Alternative to Increased Spending," by J. Stanley Marshall, December 9, 2002
- "02/01/99 - Backgrounder #25 - Unfunded Mandates: The Florida Experience," by J. Stanley Marshall, February 1, 1999
- "03/01/96 - Charter Schools and Political Power," by J. Stanley Marshall, March 1, 1996
- "02/01/96 - Electing the Superintendent Is A Poor Way To Run Our Schools," by J. Stanley Marshall, February 1, 1996
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