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Wendi Wilson is an Assistant Professor of Practice of Law at St. Mary's University. Previously, she served as an Assistant District Attorney for Bexar County (Texas) for 19 years, specializing in felony prosecutions, jury trials, and mentoring junior prosecutors. She holds a J.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Law (1993) and a B.A. in English and Political Science from Tulane University (1990, cum laude). She is currently completing a Master of Arts in English at the University of Texas at Tyler (expected Dec. 2022), focusing on critiques of English primogeniture and coverture laws in Charlotte Brontë's fiction. Her teaching specialties include Legal Writing, Research, Criminal Law, and Law in Literature.
Before her DA career, Wilson served as a U.S. Army JAG Corps officer (1990–1994), working as a legal assistance attorney, Trial Counsel, and legal instructor at Fort Sam Houston. Licensed to practice law in Texas and Mississippi, she combines legal practice experience with academic pursuits. Her research bridges legal history and literary analysis, particularly exploring gender dynamics in 19th-century legal systems.
Wilson’s professional development includes training junior prosecutors and adapting her legal expertise to academia. She plans to integrate her MA research into pedagogy, enriching law students’ understanding of historical legal contexts through literature.
