Division of Business
Faculty
Dr. John Copeland
Professor of Business
John D. Copeland was Executive Vice President for Ethics for Tyson
Foods, Inc.in Springdale, AR. from 1998 until Jan. 2003. He still
works with Tyson as a consultant. Following years of private law practice
in Texas and Arkansas, he directed the National Center for Agricultural
Law Research and Information and was a Research Professor of Law at
the University of Arkansas School of Law, from 1989 to August 1998.
He received his Juris Doctor from Southern Methodist University and
his Master of Laws in Agricultural Law from the University of Arkansas.
He holds a Doctorate in the Administration of Higher Education from
the University of Arkansas. He has authored numerous publications
on such topics as business ethics, employer-employee relations, environmental
law, insurance coverage, products liability, food safety, workers'
compensation and zoning. Dr. Copeland has twice received the American
Agricultural Law Association's Award of Excellence for Professional
Scholarship, as well as the University of Arkansas' Doctoral Dissertation
of the Year Award. In 2201, the Center for Business Ethics, Bentley
College, Waltham, Massachusetts, recognized him as an outstanding
ethics officer by naming him an Ernest A. Kallman Executive Fellow.
Since 1989, Dr. Copeland has presented approximately 200 lectures
at symposia throughout the U.S. and Scotland for universities, Organizations,
and businesses. He is listed in Who's Who in American Law. Dr. Copeland
is a member of the State bars of Texas and Arkansas. He is also admitted
to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Northern District
of Texas, The Eastern and Western Districts of AR, the Eighth Circuit
Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is presently Executive
in Residence at the Donald G. Soderquist Center for business Leadership
and Ethics and Professor of Business at John Brown University.
He and his wife, Vannette, currently reside in Springdale, AR but
are planning to move to Siloam Springs. He has two sons, Aaron 27
and Seth 25 and a daughter, Sarah 24.
Email: JCopeland@jbu.edu