Kelly Lynn Anders
Associate Dean for Student Affairs

Kelly Lynn Anders is the Associate Dean for Student Affairs at Washburn University School of Law. She also directs Washburn Law's Externship program and teaches Art Law. She earned a bachelor's degree in Journalism (with minors in Art, French, and History) from the University of Nebraska, and a juris doctorate from Pepperdine University School of Law. She is certified in Dispute Resolution from Pepperdine's renowned Straus Center for Dispute Resolution.

Before law school, Anders was a reporter for the Omaha World-Herald. She then accepted an Isaacson Fellowship in the Counseling Center at the University of Nebraska, where she counseled students and taught courses in Academic and Career Development. She later became a California Senate Fellow, which involved public policy research and media affairs in the office of the Senate President. After law school, Anders worked in public relations at Pepperdine University. She later moved to Denver, Colorado, to become a policy specialist at the National Conference of State Legislatures. Other teaching experience includes law and art courses at the Art Institute of Colorado.

Anders is a 2001 recipient of the "Forty Under 40" award from the Denver Business Journal and served on the Board of Directors of Colorado Lawyers for the Arts. She is Chair of the Kansas Bar Association's Diversity Committee, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Topeka Performing Arts Center, and is the former Vice Chair of the American Bar Association's Committee on Visual and Dramatic Works. In her spare time, she enjoys interior design and consults with attorneys and professionals to develop creative and organized workspaces.