Ronald Wright
Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Professor of Law
Phone: 336.758.5727
Email: wrightrf@wfu.edu
Ron Wright is one of the nation’s best known criminal justice scholars. He is the co-author of two casebooks in criminal procedure and sentencing; his empirical research concentrates on the work of criminal prosecutors. In 2007, he was invited to present the distinguished Hoffinger Lecture on criminal justice at the NYU School of Law. He is a board member of the Prosecution and Racial Justice Project of the Vera Institute of Justice, and has been an advisor or board member for Families Against Mandatory Minimum Sentences (FAMM), North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services, Inc., and the Winston-Salem Citizens’ Police Review Board. He currently serves as Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, where he will focus on curricular and academic issues affecting students and faculty. Prior to joining the faculty, he was a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, prosecuting antitrust and other white-collar criminal cases. Ron and his wife, Amy, have two children.
