Julie Owen joined the Mountain West staff in July 2024 as the Senior Associate Commissioner, Governance & Compliance. She is also the MW sport administrator for women’s basketball.
Owen came to the MW from Kansas State University, where she has served as senior associate athletics director for compliance and a member of the department’s senior leadership team since May 2021. Prior to that, Owen spent nine years at Mississippi in the same role. At both stops, she was a sport administrator and part of sport administrator leadership groups responsible for discussing policies and issues related to day-to-day operations.
A current member of the NCAA Legislative Committee, Owen has been a member of the Modernization of Rules, Legislative Process, and Transfers Issues subcommittees. She is also a current member of the Women’s Basketball Oversight Committee Legislative Subcommittee.
Prior to her time at Ole Miss, Owen served as a director of compliance at Oklahoma from 2008-11 and at Wright State from 2007-08. She was a compliance intern at Wisconsin-Green Bay in 2006.
Owen’s first stint at a conference office came in 2003 when she began a nine-month tenure at the Sun Belt as a championships assistant. She served as a ticket office intern at Wake Forest from 2000-01.
An assistant instructional professor at Mississippi since 2020, Owen also helped create a graduate certificate in intercollegiate athletics and one in athletics academic success.
A native of Neenah, Wisconsin, Owen earned an economics degree from Colorado College before completing postgraduate degrees in business administration and sports administration and facility management from Ohio University. She added a juris doctor from the University of Denver and a doctorate in higher education from Mississippi.