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William Dudley Geer


Dr. William Dudley "Billy" Geer (December 25, 1922 - October 3, 2003), also known as W. D. Geer, was a Christian educator who served as the first Dean of the School of Business at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. His research interests focused on finance, insurance, applied economic analysis, real estate, and economic history.

Geer was born on December 25, 1922 in Augusta, Georgia, to William Frederick Geer and Ida Gilmore Fuller; he was the eldest of four children. He graduated from the Richmond Academy in 1941. Geer's first job was as an office boy at The Augusta Chronicle, and later worked for the Citizens & Southern National Bank as a utility clerk, general ledger bookkeeper and teller. While working at the bank, he was assigned to the 45th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army Signal Corps as a code clerk during World War II (February 1943 - November 1945).

After returning from the war, Geer attended Stetson University for his Bachelor of Science in General Business (1949) and Master of Arts in Economics (1950). He was married in 1950 to Lucy Elizabeth Durner, a fellow Stentson graduate. Geer then completed his Doctorate of Business Administration in Finance in 1964 at the Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Geer was also a Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) of The American College.


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