Faculty and Staff

The Office of the Provost administers the Hunt Leadership Scholarship Program. The Program Director is Professor Linda Eads. Other staff members include Rose Torres, Program Coordinator, and Professor Miguel A. Quinones, Faculty Mentor to the Hunt Leadership Scholars Program.

Linda Eads

Professor Linda Eads is the Associate Provost responsible for faculty affairs in the Provost's Office and serves as the Director of the Hunt Leadership Scholars Program. She also serves on various committees and task forces, including the Educational Programs Committee, the Center for Teaching Excellence Advisory Committee and the Community Engagement Council.

Professor Eads has taught at the School of Law since January 1986. She teaches and writes in the areas of evidence, legal ethics, constitutional law and women and the law. She has published articles in these areas in the California Law Review, the Washington University Law Quarterly and the Texas Journal of Women and Law. She also has co-authored a student guide titled Questions & Answers: Constitutional Law.

For three years, Professor Eads chaired the Texas State Bar’s committee that studied possible changes in the disciplinary rules that govern lawyer behavior. She was asked to chair this committee by the Texas Supreme Court. In 2007, Linda received the State Bar’s President’s Award—the highest award given by the State Bar of Texas—for her work in chairing this committee.

From January 1999 to September 2000, Professor Eads was on leave from the University in order to assume the post of Deputy Attorney General for Litigation for the State of Texas. In this position she directed the State’s civil litigation and supervised more than 300 lawyers in the 10 civil litigation divisions in the Texas Attorney General’s Office.

Professor Eads received her B.A. in International Studies with Honors from the American University located in Washington, D.C. and she earned her J.D. with Honors from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining the Law School faculty, Professor Eads served as a trial attorney with the Tax Division of the United States Department of Justice.

Miguel A. Quinones

Miguel A. Quinones, the faculty mentor for the Hunt Leadership Scholars, is the Marilyn and Leo Corrigan Endowed Professor of Management and Organizations at the SMU Cox School of Business.

Professor Quinones received a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Michigan State University, and his B.S. in Psychology, with a minor in Management from Texas A&M University. He started his academic career at Rice University, where he became a tenured professor and taught in the areas of psychology and management. At Rice, he received the University’s George R. Brown award for superior teaching in 3 separate years. He also served as the residential “Master” for Baker College, one of Rice’s residential colleges.

In 2005, he received a Fulbright Scholarship by which he served as visiting professor in Chile, at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.

At the SMU Cox School of Business, he has received the Eugene T. Byrne Faculty Innovation Award. His areas of expertise include human resource management, developing organizational capabilities, and organizational change. He has published extensively in the top journals relating to organizational behavior and psychology within organizations. He has also provided consulting services to clients such as Chevron, Anthem, Minute Maid (Coca Cola), and NASA.