Biography

Dr. Marcy Hehnly has taught at Utah Valley University since Fall 2014 having moved to Utah from Atlanta, Georgia. Since being employed at UVU, she has been teaching Introduction to Criminal Justice, Corrections, Ethics, Policing, Juvenile Justice, Criminology and a Domestic Multicultural Experience to Washington D.C. and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Marcy's passion for life is teaching and ensuring the success of her students!

Marcy's background includes her active duty military service in the United States Army as a Military Police Officer while achieving the rank of sergeant in her five years. Upon exiting the military, Marcy took her training and became a member of the Cobb County Police Department located in Marietta, Georgia. Here she served as a patrolman, a field training officer, a narcotics agent, and a recruiter for the police department. After serving CCPD for 10 years, Marcy moved into teaching higher education where she remains today as a professor of Criminal Justice at UVU.

As a professor at UVU, Marcy has been awarded over $50,000 through her career to assist with her course room instructions and assist students in various projects. She is the faculty advisor for Alpha Phi Sigma, a Service Learning Faculty Fellow and serves on six different university and college committees.

As a scholar-practitioner, her research focuses on law enforcement as well as crimes against children. Her dissertation focused on police investigators' attitudes towards victims of crime and she plans to continue this research to increases law enforcement data in this area.

In her free time, Marcy enjoys traveling, the outdoors, her dogs and spending time with her direct family!

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