Professor Hadaway is the Director of the EDS Financial Trading and Technology Center and associate chair of the Finance Department.  Presently she teaches in the  Business Honors Program. She serves on several department, college and university committees. For fifteen years, she served the University as Chair of the Council for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women. As an associate professor of finance, she served as Assistant Dean and Director of the MBA program from 1986 to 1989. Upon completion of a PhD in finance and economics at the University of Alabama, Dr. Hadaway joined the finance faculty at the University of Texas in September of 1980. She holds the Capital City Savings Regents Fellowship in the McCombs School of Business.

Her research interests, focusing on financial institutions, corporate governance issues and security laws, have resulted in numerous publications in academic journals. Presently she is on the board of Guaranty preferred Capital Corporation. In the past, she has served on a number of boards including the Advisory Council of the Employees Retirement System of Texas, the University Credit Union Board of Directors, and The University of Texas Co-op Board of Directors. Her husband, Samuel is founder and principal of FINANCO, a financial consulting firm. She has a daughter in college and a married daughter living in Houston with her husband and two sons.