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Wendy Hess has been teaching at USD Knudson School of Law since 2012. She directed the legal writing program for many years, later transitioning to teaching Torts and other upper-level courses.
Her legal practice experience includes: directing the Prison Reform Project at the Public Justice Center, a non-profit law office in Baltimore, MD, where she also worked on educational access for children in foster care and enforcement of freedom of information laws; serving as the Francis Murnaghan Appellate Advocacy Fellow where she worked on poverty law and civil rights appellate cases in state and federal courts; and provision of civil legal services to prisoners and pretrial detainees in Central Pennsylvania with the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project. She also completed two judicial clerkships, one for a judge on the Maryland Court of Appeals and the other for a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.
Bar Admissions: South Dakota, Maryland, Washington DC
Legal Writing, Children & the Law, Civil Rights Law, Client Interviewing & Counseling, Legal Writing, Juvenile Justice, Torts, Writing for Change
Law Teaching Methods & Practices, Children & Law, Feminist Legal Theory, Diversity in Legal Profession
