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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]
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.
Volunteer Lawyer’s Program, Volunteer Attorney,
Raleigh, NC (1997 – present).
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)
Community Involvement:
Moderator Binkley Baptist Church, Chapel
Hill, NC, 2005 – 2006.
(Former Deacon and Sunday School Teacher)
Chair of the Board of Trustees, The
Women’s Center of Chapel Hill, NC, 2003 – 2004.
Committee Chair Pack
820, Chapel Hill, NC.
Volunteer, Ephesus Elementary School.
Member, Board of Directors, Immigration
Law Project, 1992 – 1994.
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