Admitted
1988, California; U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and U.S. District Court, Northern and Central Districts of California
Law School
University of Michigan, J.D., 1987
Law School Graduation Year
1987
College
University of Michigan, B.A., 1982
Memberships
State Bar of California; American Immigration Lawyers Association; National Lawyers Guild.
Biographical
Recipient: Jack Wasserman Award, Excellence in Immigration Litigation, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Houston, Texas, 1998; Phillip Burton Award, Outstanding Immigration Lawyering, Immigrant Legal Resource Center, San Francisco, California, 1993. Co-Author: Winning Asylum Cases, San Francisco, Immigrant Legal Resource Center, 2000; Establishing Asylum Eligibility through Past Persecution, California Conference Handbook, Washington, D.C., American Immigration Lawyers Association, October 2000. Author: Strategies for Reopening in Absentia Deportation Proceedings and Mitigating the Time and Numerical Limitations on Motions to Reopen, California Conference Handbook, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Washington, D.C., October 1998; Suspension of Deportation and Cancellation of Removal under IIRIRA, in Practice Under IIRIRA: One Year Later, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Washington, D.C., 1997; Voluntary Departure under the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, Immigration and Nationality Law Handbook, 1997-1998, Vol. II, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Washington, D.C., 1997; Motions to Reopen and Reconsider: Essentials and Recent Developments, California Conference Handbook, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Washington, D.C., November 1996; Establishing the Threat of Persecution on a Country-Wide Basis, Immigration and Nationality Law, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Washington, D.C., 1994. Co-Author with Wolf, The Detention Alternative, The Washington Post, August 17, 1993. Legislative Aide, Michigan House of Representatives, 1982-1983. Associate Attorney, McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, 1987-1988. Supervising Attorney, La Raza Centro Legal, July 1988-January 1990.