Jane-Marie Marlin, faculty instructor of teacher education, has served for 31 years in public education as a teacher, school administrator, director of curriculum and instruction and assistant superintendent, mostly in Mountain Brook City Schools and Vestavia Hills City Schools. She has served on the board for the Alabama Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, and Key Leaders. She has also presented at Learning Forward National Conventions and is involved in the Junior League of Birmingham.

She received degrees from the University of Alabama and Samford University. Marlin has been a national board-certified teacher since 2001 and an adjunct professor at Samford since 2019.

She is an active member at Dawson Church.