Dean Gloden Carlson joined the faculty of Creighton University School of Law in 2024, where she is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Director of the Health Law Program.  She teaches courses in health law, health information privacy, compliance and conflicts of interest.  She received her J.D. from the University of South Dakota, where she was the graduate research assistant to the General Counsel for the South Dakota Board of Regents, worked at the Freedom Forum’ s Al Neuharth Media Center on projects advancing journalism and education issues involving the First Amendment, held leadership positions in the Native American Law Student Association, the ABA Law Student Division and was an ABA Silver Key award recipient.
 
Following law school, Dean Gloden Carlson worked in Federal Indian Law, Government Contracting, Compliance and Socioeconomic Development for the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska’s Ho-Chunk, Inc.  She then returned to higher education working as an Assistant Dean at the University of South Dakota, and then was Assistant Dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law, while also teaching in the Undergraduate Honors Program and College of Journalism and Mass Communication.  Most recently, Dean Gloden Carlson served as the Chief Compliance Officer and Assistant Vice Chancellor and Director of Human Resources at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. 
 
Dean Gloden Carlson focuses her academic contributions on matters of Health Law and Compliance, Research Compliance, Research Integrity and Conflicts of Interest.