College of Law

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Adrian McKinney joined Toledo Law as an assistant professor of law in fall 2024. McKinney’s primary academic and research interests include criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, race and the law, and professional responsibility, among others.

McKinney taught at the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law for over four years prior to joining Toledo Law. She also taught effective writing for appeals at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

McKinney previously served as senior staff counsel at the California Department of Corrections, an appeal panel judge at the California Cannabis Control Appeal Panel, deputy legal affairs secretary for former California Gov. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., and Deputy City Attorney for the City of Sacramento. She was also a deputy district attorney for the County of Sacramento. She also clerked for the Honorable Sandra B. Armstrong of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

In 2020, McKinney received a Woman of the Year Award from U.S. Congressman John Garamendi. In 2019, she received the Erica J. Murray Young Alumnus Award from Occidental College and a 40 Under 40 Award from the Sacramento Business Journal.

McKinney earned her bachelor of arts from Occidental College, a master’s degree in public administration from California State University, Northridge, and her juris doctorate from the University of San Francisco School of Law.