Dorothy Sanders Wells

Dorothy Sanders Wells is a Staff Director in the Tax and Employee Benefits Law group of FedEx Corporation, where she is responsible for legal compliance of employee benefit plans maintained by the FedEx companies.  She received her B.A. from Rhodes College (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), and her J.D. from the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law at the University of Memphis.  Ms. Wells has over twenty-five years of experience in the design, legal compliance and administration of employee benefit plans.  For five years, she served as an adjunct professor of employee benefits law at the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, and she is the author of a number of articles, including "What All Divorce Attorneys Need to Know About Employee Benefit Plans" (Tennessee Bar Journal, 1994), "ERISA, 25 Years Later: The Evolution of America's Employee Benefits Policy" (Tennessee Bar Journal, January, 2000), and "What Women Need to Know About Health and Benefit Plans" (American Bar Association Law Practice Today, December, 2003).  She is also a contributing author for the 2008 New York University Review of Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation and the treatise, Federal Taxation of Retirement Plans (LexisNexis® Matthew Bender®).  Active in the American, Tennessee and Memphis Bar Associations, Ms. Wells is a frequent speaker, panelist and guest faculty member for seminars and continuing legal education courses.  Ms. Wells has also served on the Boards of Directors of the Margaret Hyde Council of Rhodes College and Memphis Area Legal Services, Inc. and currently serves on the Board of Trustees of St. Mary’s Episcopal School, Memphis, Tennessee and the Rhodes College Alumni Executive Board.