Dr. J.R. Harding is an associate lecturer in the Department of Management at Florida State University’s College of Business. His academic specialty is educational leadership, with a focus on disability subject matter. Harding is a two-time U.S. Presidential appointee, and a seven-time Florida Gubernatorial appointee. He has contributed to national, stat, and community public policy advancing independence and self-sufficiency of persons with disabilities for 30 years. 

Harding received his bachelor’s degree in English from Wright State University, his master’s degree in educational leadership from the University of West Florida and his Ed.S. and Ed.D. in higher education from Florida State University.