Dean Wilson earned a B.A. in Accounting from Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, and her J.D. from the University of Kentucky College of Law, where she was a member of the law school’s Moot Court team. She is also a graduate of the William & Mary Summer School of Law in England through the Marshall-Wythe School of Law, during which she also completed a legal clerkship in Exeter.
Dean Wilson previously practiced law in the Abingdon and Bristol offices of Penn, Stuart & Eskridge, where her practice primarily focused on commercial and personal injury litigation in state and federal courts and included appearing before the Supreme Court of Virginia and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. She also has extensive experience in natural resources law including mineral title examinations and transactional matters for clients in the natural resources industry.
She served as a law clerk to the Honorable Elizabeth A. McClanahan at both the Court of Appeals in Virginia and the Supreme Court of Virginia and, in private practice, was admitted to the bars of Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. She currently maintains her licenses to practice law in Virginia and Kentucky. Dean Wilson has served as an Adjunct Professor at Emory & Henry College, teaching Constitutional Law, and at ASL, teaching Conflict of Laws, Virginia Law Foundations, and Virginia Bar Preparation.
She joined the ASL faculty on a full-time basis in the Fall of 2019, where she currently serves as Chief Academic Officer and Assistant Professor of Law.
