Founder & Vice Chairman, The James Madison Institute
Email: jmi@jamesmadison.org
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 February, 1969. He retired from the presidency in August, 1976.
At Florida State University, Dr. Marshall was named by FSU students as Omicron Delta Kappa’s “Man of the Year” and was recipient of the University’s Gold Key Award.
He was named to the Twentieth Century Hall of Fame at his Springdale (Pennsylvania) High School.
In 1978, Marshall founded Sonitrol of Tallahassee, Inc., and operated the company for ten years. Sonitrol is engaged in electronic security and fire protection for businesses and residences in the Tallahassee area.
Dr. Marshall founded The James Madison Institute in 1987 and served as its President and CEO from 1987 to 2000. He now serves as Senior Scholar, publisher of the Institute’s quarterly Journal, and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors.
In 1995, Dr. Marshall was one of nine members of the Florida Commission on Cabinet Reform. He served in 1997-98 as one of thirty-seven members of the Florida Constitution Revision Commission. He served by Presidential appointment as a member of the Federal Judicial Nominating Commission for Florida, and as an advisor to Florida Governor Bob Martinez through membership on the Governor’s Economic Advisory Committee.
Dr. Marshall served from 2002 to 2005 on the Board of Trustees of Florida State University and for four years as chair of the Board of Trustees of Bethune Cookman College (now University) in Daytona Beach, Florida. In January 2005, he was appointed as a member of the Florida Board of Governors which oversees the eleven universities in the State University System. He also served on the board of directors (and as a past president) of the Southern Scholarship Foundation, and is a member of the Advisory Board of The American Studies Institute of Harding University.
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 the Founding Chairman of PEN of Florida, a non-union professional teachers’ organization. He received, in 2002, the Lifetime Leadership Award by the Tallahassee Area Chamber of Commerce.
He was (an unsuccessful) candidate for Florida Commissioner of Education in 1986.
Services to education include serving as Founding 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 Science High School in Ankara, Turkey’s capital city; as 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.
Dr. Marshall was co-author of a widely used series of science textbooks for the elementary grades published by Scott Foresman.
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 to 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 by Presidential appointment for five years on the Secretary of the Navy’s Advisory Board on Naval Education and Training and as advisor to the Secretary of the Army on on-campus Army ROTC programs. He served as 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 where he served on the AAAS Commission on Science Education.
Dr. Stanley Marshall was born in Cheswick, Pennsylvania, January 27, 1923.
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 before joining the State University of New York in Cortland where he held a Professorship in Physics. He served in the United States Army in Europe between 1943 and 1946 as a medic in an Army Field Hospital.
He and his family have been active members of Trinity United Methodist Church in Tallahassee, and Dr. Marshall has held various leadership positions in the church.
He is married to the former Shirley Slade of Longview, Texas. They have five grown children and thirteen grandchildren; ten boys and three girls. The Marshalls own and operate a 250-acre cattle farm across the state line in Southwest Georgia.
Stan Marshall has been a member of the Rotary Club of Tallahassee since 1969 and served as Club President in 1992-93. He received the Frederick Clifton Moore Award in 1995 and is a Paul Harris Fellow.
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
- “Mary McLeod Bethune: a Florida Treasure,” by J. Stanley Marshall, Tallahassee Democrat, February 29, 2004
- “2003 March – Higher Education in Florida: The Special Role of the Independent Colleges,” 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
- “1999 February – Backgrounder #25 – Unfunded Mandates: The Florida Experience,” by J. Stanley Marshall, February 1, 1999
- “1997 June – Backgrounder #22 – Comparing Spending and Performances in Florida’s Public Schools and Colleges,” by James Gwartney, Lora Holcombe, J. Stanley Marshall and Russell Sobel, June 1, 1997
- “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
