Wiseman is the Vice President for Academic Affairs and a Professor of Law at Creighton University. Before joining Creighton in 2002, Professor Wiseman was the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Marquette University and a professor in the Marquette Law School, where she taught courses in Evidence, Constitutional Criminal Procedure, Civil Procedure, Jurisdiction, and Remedies.

Before commencing her teaching career, Professor Wiseman served as an Assistant Wisconsin Attorney General with the Criminal Appeals Division and a law clerk to the Honorable Robert W. Warren, deceased Chief Judge for the United States District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin. She has also served as reporter to the Wisconsin State Bar Committee on Justice and the Judiciary and the State Bar Litigation Section. She was a member of the Wisconsin Task Force on Equal Justice, the Board of Attorneys’ Professional Responsibility and the Board of Bar Examiners. She has been a member of the Wisconsin State Elections Board and the Board of the Federal Defender Services of Eastern Wisconsin, Inc.

She remains Associate Editor of the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel Quarterly and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. Her articles have appeared in the Ohio State Law Journal, the St. Louis University Law Journal, and the Marquette Law Review.

In 1991, Professor Wiseman received the Marquette University Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence, and in 1996 she received the law school’s first annual James D. Ghiardi Faculty Award for outstanding classroom teaching and scholarship. In 1989, Professor Wiseman received the Wisconsin Civil Liberties Union Volunteer Attorney of the Year Award for her representation of Texas death row inmate Billy Conn Gardner, who was executed in 1995. Later that year, Professor Wiseman received the Posner Foundation Award for her representation of Mr. Gardner; she was also recognized in 2000 as a “Woman of Influence” by the Wisconsin Business Journal. Before leaving Marquette University in May 2002, she received the Spirit of the Law School Award for serving as a role model for a generation of Marquette lawyers, and in April 2003, she was named Marquette University Law Alumna of the Year.