Ann Wilson Green earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1983. She earned her Juris Doctor degree from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. in 1986. Upon graduating, she began practicing law with Sedgwick, Detert, Moran and Arnold in New York City where she specialized in medical device and pharmaceutical products liability litigation. During that time, she was also actively involved in the New York City Bar Association’s Special Committee on Legal Issues Affecting People with Disabilities. Ann transferred to Sedgwick’s San Francisco office in 1991 where she was promoted to partner. In 1998, Ann retired to explore other pursuits.

In 2014, Ann earned a Master of Liberal Arts, (MLA), degree from Stanford University. In her master's thesis, she traced Sigmund Freud's concept of interrupted mourning in James Joyce's Ulysses. Interested in continuing her Joyce studies, she enrolled in Claremont Graduate University in 2016 where she is currently a PhD candidate in English. Ann presented a paper on Hamlet at the 2017 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference at the Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois. In 2018, she presented her research on "The Genetic Evolution of Queen Victoria in James Joyce's Ulysses" at the International James Joyce Symposium in Antwerp. In the Fall of 2019, Ann published an article in the James Joyce Quarterly, "Conjuring the Shades of Queen Victoria in James Joyce's Ulysses."

Ann is currently serving on the Alumni Advisory Board for Stanford's MLA program and is a board of trustee with the Nueva School, a preK-12 independent school. She is also on the board of the Avalon Academy, a K-12 school which provides education and therapeutic opportunities to students with movement disorders. She is an avid runner and loves to read and write.