Carolyn Stone, PhD
Carolyn Stone, PhD
University of North Florida
Professor Emeritus of Counselor Education
Dr. Carolyn Stone (she/her/hers) is a Professor Emeritus of Counselor Educator for the University of North Florida where she was awarded their Distinguished Professorship in 2016; UNFs highest honor. Dr. Stone was the 2006 President of the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) and served as ASCAs Ethics Chair for twenty years. Prior to stepping down from the role in 2022, Dr. Stone chaired the last four revisions of the ASCA Ethical Standards and wrote 100 legal and ethical columns for ASCA. Dr. Stone was awarded ASCA’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010 and the Florida School Counselor Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. She has provided keynote addresses and workshops for all 50 state school counseling associations; presented approximately 840 presentations on legal and ethical issues to international/national/state conferences and school districts. She has completed dozens of webinars for ASCA and authored the only legal and ethical book exclusively for school counselors, currently in its fifth edition. Dr. Stone has served as an expert witness in 12 court cases involving school counselors as defendants. Prior to becoming a counselor educator in 1995, Dr. Stone spent 22 years with the Duval County Public Schools in Jacksonville, Florida where she served 239 school counselors as their district level supervisor and was an elementary and high school counselor and middle school teacher.