Kellye Testy
Dean and Professor of Law
Room 210J, Seattle University School of Law
Phone: (206) 398-4309
E-mail: ktesty@seattleu.edu
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Teaches Business Entities; Contracts; Corporate Governance; Economic Justice
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B.A. cum laude Indiana University 1982. J.D. summa cum laude and graduate minor in women's studies Indiana University School of Law 1991: Indiana Law Journal editor-in-chief; Order of the Coif; John H. Edwards Fellow; Chancellor's Scholar. Clerk to Judge Jesse E. Eschbach, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Kellye Testy is the Dean of Seattle University’s School of Law. She initially joined the law faculty in 1992, after serving as a law clerk to the Honorable Jesse Eschbach of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Dean Testy earned her J.D. summa cum laude (first in class) from Indiana University School of Law (1991), where she served as the Indiana Law Journal’s editor-in-chief, was a member of Order of the Coif, a John H. Edwards Fellow, and a Chancellor's Scholar. During law school, she also completed a joint program in women’s studies. Now a frequent lecturer nationally in the areas of business and commercial law, Dean Testy is a leading scholar in the area of corporate governance reform. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on corporate governance and other business law and economic justice issues. In addition to her teaching and writing activities, Dean Testy is also active as a consultant and expert witness on a variety of corporate and securities law matters, in both state and federal court. At Seattle University, she served as a Wismer Professor from 2001-03. In the law school, she co-founded the law school’s Access to Justice Institute, and founded both the Seattle Journal for Social Justice, and the Center on Corporations, Law & Society. Prior to being named Dean, she served as the Associate Dean for Academic Administration.
Read more about Kellye Testy’s journey to become dean in the profile from The Lawyer.