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Marc A. Galvin

Director of Law Student Affairs and Registrar

B.S., M.A.,  Ball State University
Ed.D., University of Georgia

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Biographical Information

Marc A. Galvin is the University of Georgia School of Law's director of student affairs and registrar, and now also servers as law facilities coordinator. He joined the law school as associate director of admissions in 1983.

Currently, he and his staff maintain student records and oversee course registration and the distribution of grades. They also provide information to prospective employers and bar admission offices across the country. They developed the course preference registration system, an idea since shared with other law schools.

Additionally, Galvin assists student organizations and oversees student activities funds. In addition, he counsels individual students and serves as a liaison for law students with other offices and services at UGA, including the approval of short term loans. Galvin is an advisor to the Student Bar Association (SBA) and to the Asian Law Student Association. His office coordinates two Red Cross blood drives each year. He has served on several law school and university committees and currently is the law school building safety and security representative to the UGA Office of Security and Emergency Preparedness.

Galvin teaches a UGA freshman seminar titled Georgia and the Civil War. He also has taught the UGA undergraduate course History of Georgia. Galvin has published several book reviews, was a contributor to the Greenwood Dictionary of Education and has edited and proofread other publications.

Galvin's professional affiliations have included the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers and the National Network of Law School Officers, for which he has been a three-time board member. He also participates in the Student Services Section of the Association of American Law Schools.

Galvin is a scholarship application reader for the Jeannette Rankin Foundation, serves as his neighborhood's representative to the March of Dimes, and he and his wife were honorary co-chairs for the Oconee County Relay for Life. Currently an avid fan of his sons' athletic teams, he is a former youth basketball and baseball coach. Galvin is an elder on session at his church. In addition to historical society memberships including the Northeast Georgia Civil War Roundtable, Galvin assists in the training of U.S. Army Military History Detachment personnel. 

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