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Position:
Attorney; Member of the Firm. Admitted to the
North Carolina Bar in 1994.
Practice is exclusively Immigration and
Naturalization.
Education:
North Carolina Central University School of Law,
Durham,
NC [Evening Program] J.D., Cum Laude
Law
Review: Senior Staff Member, North Carolina
Central Law Journal , 1991 - 1994
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC,
1982
B.A.,
Bachelor of Arts with a major in International
Studies
Positions:
Adjunct Law Professor, North Carolina
Central University School of Law, Durham, NC,
2002 Present. [Professional Responsibility,
Immigration Law, Legal Writing]
Adjunct
Law Professor, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, 2008 Present. [Immigration
and Nationality Law]
Immigration Attorney, Allen & Pinnix,
P.A., Raleigh, NC (1997 2005).
Of Counsel to the firm, 2005 present.
North Carolina Court of Appeals, Hon. Linda
McGee, Law Clerk, 1995 1997.
United States Senator Terry Sanford, Staff
Assistant, Immigration and Department of State
Matters, 1986 1992.
Affiliations:
American Immigration Lawyers Association, (AILA),
Member, 1997 Present.
Board of Governors and Chapter Chair,
Carolinas Chapter of AILA (2000 2002).
Treasurer (1999).
Pro Bono Profile, National AILA Publication,
Immigration law Today, May - June, 2006
http://www.aila.org/Content/default.aspx?docid=19468)
North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys,
Member.
North Carolina Bar Association, Member. Lawyer
Effectiveness Quality of Life Committee, Member,
1998.
Awards and
Publications:
Manuscript, An Overview of Business and Family
Immigration for the Non-Immigration Attorney.
(Co-authored with John L. Pinnix and C. Lynn
Calder)
S.L.A.P.P. Suits - A First Amendment Issue &
Beyond, (Co-Author Marcus Jimison), 21 N.C. Cent
L.J., No. 1, p. 122 (1995).
Immigration -- A Broken System, co-authors: C.
Lynn Calder and John L. Pinnix, The North
Carolina State Bar Journal, Fall 2006, Volume
11, Number 3 website is:
www.ncstatebar.org)
Recipient
of the Business Leader Media 2008 Pro Bono
Impact Award for the Triangle Community.
Community Involvement:
Moderator Binkley Baptist Church, Chapel
Hill, NC, 2005 2006.
(Former Deacon and Sunday School Teacher)
Chair of the Board of Trustees, The
Womens Center of Chapel Hill, NC, 2003 2004.
Volunteer, Woods Charter School
Member, Board of Directors, Immigration
Law Project, 1992 1994.
Board
Member, Triangle Youth Hockey of NC
(Hillsborough Sharks)
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