Dr. Marilyn M. Helms is the Dean Emerita and former Sesquicentennial Endowed Chair and Professor of Supply Chain Management at Dalton State College’s C. Lamar and Ann Wright School of Business in Dalton, GA, an AACSB internationally accredited institution.She has served under multiple interim leaders.

She serves on several nonprofit boards and is the immediate past-chair of the Common Spirit Memorial Hospital Board of Community Advisors for Chattanooga, TN and North Georgia. She is a frequent speaker on time management, work-life balance, and supply chain issues and is a consultant to schools pursuing accreditation and preparing for accreditation maintenance.