Darron C. Farha is Vice President and General Counsel of Valparaiso University and secretary of its board of directors - the University's first General Counsel, joining the University in November of 2009. Farha has presented at numerous NACUA conferences, usually in the areas of governance and the roles and relationships of a university general counsel. Farha was General Counsel for Pittsburg State University and an associate attorney with the law firm Wheeler & Mitchelson in Pittsburg, Kansas. His areas of practice were in commercial law, civil litigation, corporate law, employment law, taxation, and real estate law.
Farha is licensed to practice law in Indiana and the U.S. District Court – Northern District of Indiana and holds memberships with the Indiana State Bar Association, Porter County (Indiana) Bar Association, and the National Association of College and University Attorneys, where he served as a member of its Board of Directors (class of FY 2015-2018) and as a member of several committees including the Committee on Finance and Audit where he also served several terms as Vice Chair (Chair of the Subcommittee on Investments). Farha also serves on the Legal Services Review Panel for the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU).
Farha earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Pittsburg State University, a Master of Business Administration from Washburn University, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Kansas.