BarbaraKaye Wright, JD

BarbaraKaye Wright, JD, is the assistant dean of Admissions at Creighton University School of Law. For the last 17 years, she has worked in academia. She started with Creighton Law in May of 2017. Prior to Creighton Law, she served as both the assistant dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, and the assistant dean of Admissions, Financial Aid and Graduate Programs at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University (ASU). Prior to ASU, she served as the dean of Admissions at Phoenix School of Law. 

She received both her BA and JD at the University of Iowa in 1987 and 1990, respectively. Prior to working in academia, she spent 17 years in Ohio practicing law in a variety of areas. She started out practicing Commercial Litigation and Employment Law with a large law firm in Ohio, Fuller & Henry.  She then went on to clerk for United States District Court (Northern District of Ohio) Judge John W. Potter. Afterwards, she served as a Lucas County assistant prosecutor working in both the Criminal and Juvenile Divisions, where she tried over 100 cases with a 98% conviction rate. While working as an assistant prosecutor, she also taught law-related courses at Lourdes College. She has been a partner at both Wise People Management Consulting Firm, and Ryan, Wise, Miller and Dorner, where she did Employment Law and Litigation. After practicing law in Ohio, she later moved to Houston, Texas and served as vice president of LegalWATCH, Inc., a Preventive Law Consulting Firm. 

She is the mother of two sons: one graduated from Swarthmore University with degrees in Engineering and Economics. He is also a former Fulbright Scholar who did research in Korea on wearable technologies. The other is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of University of Nebraska at Omaha with a degree in Computer Science and minor in Applied Mathematics.

She spends her free time playing too much Sudoku and Mahjong, and with her dog, Caesar.