Kathleen K. Wright

Kathleen K. Wright, JD, CPA, LLM, MBA is a professor of accounting at California State University, Fullerton where she is the Director of the Graduate 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 New York and admitted to practice law in New York. She has a private tax practice focusing on personal and small business tax planning and representation before the IRS and the Franchise Tax Board.

She is the author of The Manual of California Taxes, published by Commerce Clearing House. She also writes a monthly column for State Tax Notes published by Tax Analysts (Washington DC) where she serves as the California correspondent. 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 issues of the American Institute for Certified Public Accountants.

Ms. Wright speaks frequently for various professional organizations on state and local issues including the California CPA Society, various Enrolled Agent chapters in California and the Franchise Tax Board.