Marcia J. Staff is a Regents Professor of Business Law in the College of Business Administration at the University of North Texas. She holds a bachelor of journalism with high honors from the University of Texas at Austin and a doctor of jurisprudence magna cum laude from the University of Houston Law Center. She has been on the faculty of the University of North Texas since 1979 and in Fall 1999 completed a 12 year tenure as Associate Dean. During her term as Associate Dean, she served as director of the College's successful reaccreditation by AACSB International -- The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

Her teaching experience includes the legal environment of business at both the undergraduate and master's levels, as well as master's level courses in insurance law and law and ethics for long-term care administrators. She is a frequent speaker on the ethical dimensions of decision-making and the legal and ethical aspects of personnel management. Her current research interests include the scholarship of teaching and its application to legal scholarship; the legal and ethical implications of employment references; and the legal and ethical dimensions of business decision- making and dispute resolution under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

She is past president of the Southern Academy of Legal Studies in Business and recently served as editor in chief of the Southern Law Journal. She was elected by the faculty of the University of North Texas to deliver the Summer 2000 commencement speech and was the recipient of the 2000 President's Council Service Award at UNT and the 2001 Council of Business Students Teaching Award. She was recently appointed as National Director of the PDI Center for Paralegal Education.

In Fall 2006, she began her term as Chair of the UNT Faculty Senate.

Professor Staff and her husband, Wayne Mitchell, reside in Denton where they raised their two adult daughters.