East Texas A&M University announced the hiring of Jim Curry as the university's newest director of athletics in March 2023.
Curry came to Lion Country from Florida State University (FSU), where he served FSU Athletics for more than a decade.
Curry was FSU's senior associate athletics director from 2016 to 2023. In that role, he oversaw the football, women's basketball, women's soccer, and men's and women's tennis programs. Under Curry's leadership, these programs combined for 21 postseason appearances, culminating in an NCAA Division I Women's Soccer National Championship in 2021.
In Fall 2022, Florida State finished 15th in the nation in the NACDA Division I Learfield Directors' Cup standings, which ranks colleges and universities by the success of all their athletics programs.
Among his duties, Curry oversaw the facilities and event operations team and the equipment staff. He also spearheaded all name, image and likeness (NIL) initiatives for FSU Athletics, directing the launch of the department's comprehensive NIL program, Apex, in April 2021.
Curry has served on the Atlantic Coast Conference Women's Basketball Committee since 2019 and was named one of the Top Assistant Athletic Directors in Division I by Silver Waves Media in 2021.
Before his stint at FSU, Curry worked at Coastal Carolina University and the University of Maryland, giving him more than 17 years of experience working in Division I athletics.
Curry holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Dickinson College, where he played football and served as a student athletic trainer. He also has a master's degree in sport management studies from Pennsylvania Western University, California, and an MBA from Florida State.
Curry and his wife, Marisa, came to Commerce with daughter Quinn and son J.J.
