[2] Wells, in 1916, earned a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Southern California.
[3] She was an associate with Arthur Wilson Eckman (1885–1974) in the Walter P. Story Building in the Broadway Theater and Commercial Districts of Los Angeles.
For a little over two years, beginning December 18, 1921, Wells was Assistant State Inheritance Tax Attorney for California.
[4][2] She resigned January 31, 1924, to take charge of the Women's Bureau of the Johnson-for-President Club of Southern California.
[5] While studying law at USC, Wells was a member of Phi Delta Delta (USC's Alpha chapter), which, at the time, was the only women's professional law fraternity in the country.