Mary Wright - Professor
B.A., University of North Carolina at Greensboro; J.D., George Washington University School of Law.

  Professor Wright earned a BA in Political Science from UNC-Greensboro in 1973 and a Juris Doctor from the National Law Center at George Washington University in 1976. After working as a legal services staff attorney, she taught at the Woodrow Wilson College of Law in Atlanta, Georgia. She joined the faculty at NCCU School of Law in 1985 where she taught full-time until she served as Assistant Dean for the Day Program in 1989-90.

  The following year Professor Wright was appointed to serve as Interim Dean of the Law School, and accepted the position of Dean of the Law School in 1991. She returned to the classroom to full-time teaching in the fall of 1994. Professor Wright's primary teaching areas are contracts, family law and legal reasoning. She has written in the areas of family law, contracts, and more recently, education law.

  Professor Wright is a member of the North Carolina Bar, the District of Columbia Bar and the Georgia Bar. She is also a member of the North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers. Her community activities include service as a board member of the Land Loss Prevention Project, the Obi Nka Bi Development Collective, and Omuteko Gwamaziima, an African-centered school of which Professor Wright is a founding member.

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Contact Information:
mwright@nccu.edu - Email

(919) 530-???? - Phone