For more than three decades, Patrick Maroney played an instrumental role in the rise of the College of Business – leading the graduate programs into the digital age, setting up the risk management/insurance program for preeminence and recruiting faculty members who continue to make lasting contributions to the Dr. William T. Hold/The National Alliance Program in Risk Management and Insurance and the college.

Maroney joined the faculty as an assistant professor of business law in 1981 and retired in 2013 as the Kathryn Magee Kip Professor in Risk Management and Insurance. He served as MBA director, associate dean of graduate programs and chair of what is now the Department of Department of Risk Management/Insurance, Real Estate and Legal Studies. 

Former colleagues note two particularly significant achievements: 

• He persuaded the college to offer online graduate programs in 2001, long before they became mainstream, and he built from scratch the online master’s program in Risk Management and Insurance (MS-RMI) – which consistently ranks in the Top 20 among public universities by U.S. News & World Report – and then the MBA program.
• He played a key role in securing the funding and naming in 2012 of the Dr. William T. Hold/The National Alliance Program in Risk Management and Insurance, which stands as a perennial Top 5 program.

Maroney also published a “State of the Market” report on Florida’s private insurance market, and he worked with the Florida Legislature to launch the Florida Catastrophic Storm Risk Management Center, which he developed, directed and grew through his own fundraising efforts.

He won awards for teaching and advising of student groups, and he co-authored more than 50 articles and books on insurance law and regulation.

Maroney earned a B.S. in RMI from FSU in 1971 and a J.D. from the University of Florida in 1975.