Visiting Professor of Law
Udoka Nwanna brings her broad range of litigation and teaching experience to Mitchell Hamline’s faculty. At her previous institutions, Professor Nwanna taught a range of courses including legal writing, bar preparation, civil litigation skills and academic success, and she held administrative positions of assistant dean of students and director of academic support.
Prior to embarking upon her academia path, Nwanna practiced employment law and professional liability defense after working as a deputy district attorney, was an associate at a national law firm focusing her practice on federal class action securities fraud litigation, and served as a law clerk to the Honorable John H. Houston, United States District Court, Southern District of California.
Nwanna is an active member of the legal community and spends her free time traveling, golfing, working as a spiritual intuitive life coach and volunteering at a local children’s hospital.
Education
J.D., California Western School of Law, 2003
B.A., Emory University, Atlanta, 1999
Experience
Mitchell Hamline School of Law: visiting professor, 2024–; adjunct professor, 2020–22
Alliant International University, San Diego: assistant dean of students, 2018–19; adjunct professor, 2016–18
Abraham Lincoln University School of Law, Los Angeles: J.D. program chair and professor of law, 2017–18
Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles: visiting professor, 2016–17
University of San Diego School of Law: adjunct professor, 2016
Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego: adjunct professor, 2010–16
Western State College of Law, Fullerton, CA: assistant professor, 2013–14
California Western School of Law, San Diego: adjunct professor, 2009–13
McMillan Academy of Law, San Diego: criminal law professor, 2012
Andrews Lagasse Branch & Bell: associate, 2009–10
San Diego County District Attorney’s Office, deputy district attorney, 2007–09
Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins: associate, 2004–06; post car law clerk, 2004
U.S. District Court, Southern District of California: judicial law clerk to Judge John Houston, 2004; summer law clerk to Judge Napoleon Jones, Jr., 2001
Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach; law clerk and post bar law clerk, 2003–04
U.S. Department of the Navy, Office of General Counsel at the Pentagon: summer law clerk, 2002
Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek: law clerk, 2001–02
California Innocence Project: clinical intern, 2001–03
Bar admission
California
United States Supreme Court
U.S. District Courts in California
Udoka.Nwanna @mitchellhamline.edu