Faculty Senators & Officers

2024-2025 Officers

  • President: Heidi Dempsey – fspres@jsu.edu
  • Vice President/President-Elect: David Dempsey
  • Past-President: Vacant
  • Secretary: Chris Clark
  • Historian:  Barbie Norvell

Officers Archive

Faculty Mace

2024-2025 Senators

Applied Engineering

Jess Godbey

jgodbey@jsu.edu

3rd Year, 1st Term

Art

Tray Ridlen

mridlen@jsu.edu

3rd Year, 2nd Term

Biology

Jenna Ridlen

jridlen@jsu.edu

3rd Year, 1st Term

Career Technical Education and Professional Studies

Erica Hardy

elhardy@jsu.edu

3rd Year, 1st Term

Chemistry and Geosciences

Kathryn Catlin

kcatlin@jsu.edu

1st Year, 1st Term

Communication

Patrick McGrail

jmcgrail@jsu.edu

2nd Year, 1st Term

Criminal Justice

Christopher Murtagh

cmurtagh@jsu.edu

3rd Year, 1st Term

Emergency Management & Public Administration

Chan Wang

wang@jsu.edu

3rd Year, 1st Term

English

Rashad Ahmed

rahmed@jsu.edu

3rd Year, 1st Term

English

Katelyn Walker

knwalker@jsu.edu

3rd Year, 1st Term

Finance, Economics & Accounting

Billy Hankins

whankins@jsu.edu

3rd Year, 1st Term

History & Foreign Languages

Lance Ingwerson

lingwersen@jsu.edu

2nd Year, 1st Term

Kinesiology

Chris Clark

cclark8@jsu.edu

2nd Year, 1st Term

Kinesiology

Allen Gilbert

agilbert@jsu.edu

1st Year, 1st Term

Learning Services

Natalie Freeman

nkfreeman@jsu.edu

1st Year, 1st Term

Library

Allison Boswell

amboswell@jsu.edu

1st Year, 1st Term

Management & Marketing

Yajun Lu

ylu@jsu.edu

1st Year, 1st Term

Mathematical, Computing & Info Sciences

David Thornton 

thornton@jsu.edu

1st Year, 1st Term

Mathematical, Computing & Info Sciences

David Dempsey

ddempsey@jsu.edu

1st Year, 1st Term

Military Science

Paul Robertson

probertson@jsu.edu

1st Year, 1st Term

Music

Chris Hosmer

chosmer@jsu.edu 

1st Year, 1st Term

Music

Shellie Beeman

sbeeman@jsu.edu

1st Year, 1st Term

Nursing

Laura Barrow

lbarrow@jsu.edu

3rd Year, 1st Term

Nursing

Stacy Mikel

dmikel@jsu.edu

1st Year, 1st Term

Nursing

Wendy Key

wokey@jsu.edu

1st year, 1st Term

Professional Counseling and Leadership

 Stacey Gill

sgill@jsu.edu

1st Year, 1st Term

Psychology

Heidi Dempsey

hdempsey@jsu.edu

2nd Year, 1st Term

Respiratory Therapy

Andres Crawley

acrawley@jsu.edu

1st Year, 2nd Term

Social Work

Jody Long

Jlong12@jsu.edu

1st Year, 1st Term

Sociology & Political Science

Brianna Turgeon

bturgeon@jsu.edu

1st Year, 1st Term

Teacher Education

Barbie Norvell

bnorvell@jsu.edu

2nd Year, 1st Term

Theater & Film

Randal Blades

rblades@jsu.edu

1st year, 1st Term

Ex-Officio (Non-voting) Members

SGA President

Kaitlyn Letson

sgapres@stu.jsu.edu

Online@JSU

Shelena Cofield

sccofield@jsu.edu

Faculty Commons

Mica Mecham

mmecham@jsu.edu

Provost/SVPAA

Christie Shelton

cshelton@jsu.edu

Department Head Council Representative

 Kimber Wickersham

 kwickersham@jsu.edu