General Counsel
Barbara C. Wingo
Associate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel
Barbara C. Wingo serves as the Deputy General Counsel. She represents and advises the University of Florida in all areas of education law and acts as the general counsel of the University in the General Counsel's absence. Currently her primary areas of practice are intellectual property, technology transfer, research, shared governance, tenure and other matters affecting faculty members, operations of University-related not-for-profit corporations and other entities, conflict of interest, administrative law and proceedings, and constitutional law questions.
Prior to joining the Office of the Vice President and General Counsel at the University, Dr. Wingo was a member of the history faculty at Southern Methodist University and the University of Houston. She has been an adjunct member of the University of Florida Department of History since 1982, where she teaches United States history, principally the American Revolution and the early national period.
Dr. Wingo received her juris doctor degree cum laude from Southern Methodist University, where she was inducted into the Order of the Coif. She earned her masters of arts and doctor of philosophy degrees in history from Tulane University. She specialized in United States history with a secondary field of modern British history. She received her bachelor of arts degree with great distinction, majoring in history, from Stanford University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. As an undergraduate she participated in the Stanford in Germany program and was a congressional intern for Representative William Ross under the auspices of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
Dr. Wingo is an active member of the National Association of College and University Attorneys, serving on its Strategic Planning Committee. She also currently serves as Treasurer of the Government Lawyer's Section of the Florida Bar. In addition, she is a member of a number of other legal and history organizations as well as being a frequent lecturer at various institutions and meetings. Dr. Wingo is Board Certified by the Florida Bar in State and Federal Government and Administrative Practice. She is a nationally known expert on research foundations, conflict of interest, faculty start-up companies, and intellectual property issues.
Dr. Wingo joined the University of Florida Office of the Vice President and General Counsel in 1983 and is admitted to practice in all state courts in Florida and Texas and the following federal courts: the Northern and Middle District Courts of Florida, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.