Professor Hulen D. Wendorf

Hulen D. Wendorf served on the Baylor Law School faculty for twenty-five years, following a distinguished career in the Judge Advocate Department of the United States Army. Known as "the Colonel," he taught a wide range of courses during his tenure, but is perhaps best known for his criminal law and evidence classes.

Wendorf received a B.S. from the United States Military Academy and a J.D. from Yale University. He retired as a Colonel in the Judge Advocate Department in 1961, whereupon he accepted an appointment to join the Baylor Law School faculty. During the next twenty-five years, he taught courses in contracts, evidence, administration of estates, juvenile law, poverty law, insurance, retirement law, criminal law, and criminal procedure. He taught roughly 180 separate sections of courses consisting of a total of about 9,000 students.

In 1968, he became the Chairman of the Faculty Publications Committee, overseeing the work of the Baylor Law Review. He served in that capacity until his retirement in 1986. Upon Wendorf's retirement, W. Frank Newton, a former Baylor faculty member and current Dean of the Texas Tech School of Law, noted the following:

Hulen D. Wendorf... avoids the pitfalls which so often characterize legal educators. He is intellectually rigorous, as attested by his academic record at Yale, his professional success in the Judge Advocate General's Corps in the Army, and his many written contributions in law reviews and treatises. Nonetheless, Hulen Wendorf is not only familiar with the reality of legal practice but equally expert in this realm.