Kathleen K. Wright CPA, J.D., MBA (Tax), LL.M.

Kathleen K. Wright, JD, CPA, LLM, MBA Kathleen Wright is a visiting professor at Golden Gate University School of Taxation (San Francisco) and the Director of the State and Local Tax Program. She has a BS (Accounting) from Florida State University, a JD from Fordham Law School (New York City), a MBA (Taxation) from New York University and a LLM (Taxation) from Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco. She is also a CPA licensed in California and admitted to practice law in New York. She has a private tax practice focusing on personal and small business tax planning and consulting. She is a co- author of the State Taxation and Other Business Taxes (Commerce Clearing House Expert Treatise Series, 2014) and California’s Response to the Economic Recession, also published by CCH. She writes a column for State Tax Notes published by Tax Analysts (Washington DC) where she serves as a California correspondent. She publishes frequently on state and local issues with articles appearing in The Tax Adviser, The Tax Lawyer, The Journal of State Taxation and The Journal of Legal Tax Research. She has been elected to the Board of Trustees for the California CPA Education Foundation and the Executive Advisory Board for the Franchise Tax Board. She has also been appointed to the Technical Resource Panel for State and Local tax issues of the American Institute for Certified Public Accountants. She speaks frequently on multistate topics and continues to present seminars for the California CPA Education Foundation on a wide variety of topics.