Kellye Testy, J.D.
Member, Board of Advisors

Ms. Kellye Testy, J.D. serves as the Dean of the School of Law at Seattle University. Alden & Associates, Inc. became acquainted with Ms. Testy during the course of their Director of Athletics search where she served as the Chair of the Search Committee. We were so impressed with not only her academic and administrative credentials, but her sense of integrity and commitment to a search well done that we invited her to sit on our Board of Advisors.

While leading the School of Law at Seattle, she also teaches Business Entities, Contracts, Corporate Governance, and Economic Justice. In 1982 she received a B.A. [cum laude] from Indiana University and her J.D. [summa cum laude and graduate minor in women's studies] was awarded from the Indiana University School of Law in 1991. Some of Dean Testy’s accomplishments include having served as the Indiana Law Journal editor-in-chief, being a member of the Order of the Coif, and having received the honor of serving as a John H. Edwards Fellow and a Chancellor's Scholar. She clerked to Judge Jesse E. Eschbach in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Dean Testy is a frequent lecturer nationally in the areas of business and commercial law, as well as on a variety of social justice topics. Co-founder of the Access to Justice Institute and the founding advisor of the Seattle Journal for Social Justice, she is also the faculty director of the School of Law's Center for Corporations, Law and Society. From 2001-2003, she was the Patricia Wismer Professor at Seattle University. She joined the faculty in 1992, and became dean in February 2005.