Roxana Bacon, a well-respected immigration attorney, has just been
named Chief Counsel of U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services.
Bacon was formerly based in Arizona and is widely respected in the
immigration legal community. She was the first woman to serve as
president of the State Bar of Arizona and was formerly General Counsel
for the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Bacon received the
American Bar Association’s Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement
Award in 2009 and is an endowed processor of immigration law and policy
at Arizona Law School.
In her new post, Bacon will manage more than 150 attorneys and their
staff and will play a key role in the development of immigration
policies and major immigration reform initiatives in the coming years.
