Sheila Reynolds
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor of Law
"Washburn Law School has a long tradition of fostering a humane yet challenging environment for learning the law and the legal profession. Over and over students, alumni, faculty and staff express appreciation for being able to learn and work in a community that highly values positive relationships and student success and demonstrates the best qualities of the legal profession."
J.D., University of Kansas, 1971
- Publications
- Resumé (29 KB PDF)
Donna McMurry
(785) 670-1662
Office 202
(for non-academic)
Donna Haverkamp
(785) 670-1661
Office 202
(for academic questions)
Professional Responsibility
Professional Responsibility Seminar
After majoring in Oriental Languages and East Asian Studies in college, Dean Reynolds was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Harvard for one year, studying Chinese literature. Then she decided to study law and has never regretted it. She returned to Kansas for her J.D., was admitted to practice law in Kansas and Missouri in 1971, and worked as a legal services lawyer in both states. She began teaching at Washburn Law School in 1979 and served as Associate Dean from 1985-91. She is again serving as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in 2008-09. She currently teaches Professional Responsibility and also previously supervised family law cases in the Washburn Law Clinic for 28 years, through the spring of 2007.
In 2008 Dean Reynolds received the Robert Gernon Award for outstanding service to continuing legal education in Kansas. In 2007 she received a KBA Pro Bono Certificate, for legal representation of indigent persons without charge, and in 1999 she received the KBA Outstanding Service Award.
