Returning home to the University of Utah, he was elected student body vice president and received a Bachelor of Science in Geology in 1960, and a J.D.
[2] He was considered for President Ronald Reagan's judicial nomination to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
[3] The book drew from the Middlemiss papers and interviews conducted by Wright and Prince, and was published in 2005 as David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism, winning multiple awards.
[4][5] After retiring from full time legal work, Wright practiced law independently in Salt Lake City and Washington, D.C.
They lived in Salt Lake City and had one daughter and seven sons, including Thomas Wright, a real estate broker and one-time Chairman of the Utah Republican Party.