Carole Wells joins the university’s Student Services to direct the Admissions Office. Most recently, she has been working as a clinical faculty supervising the Victims Rights' Clinic. Prior to that she was a case manager with the Second Judicial District’s Drug Court covering the drug courts in Grangeville, Lewiston, Moscow and Orofino. She also has her own law office in downtown Moscow. From 2002 until 2005, she worked with Chuck Kovis in his criminal defense practice.

Carole attended law school as a nontraditional student after raising four children with her husband Steve. She has taken on a variety of issues in her life: Carole was a docent at the Natural History Museum in Pocatello and she joined the ACLU in 1995 where she was an active board member of that organization until 2012.