Twenty years on and I have stayed the course practicing commercial litigation in New York and New Jersey, though my firm home has changed a few times (it's a bit like Goldilocks!). I am now settled in as a litigation partner in the New York office of Potomac Law Group, which was founded in DC but currently has attorneys across 25 states. I also keep active in the legal community outside of the office. This past year I stepped up as Chair of the Litigation Committee at the New York City Bar Association. I'm living right across the Hudson River with my husband and our feline family members.

After spending 8 years in private practice, I joined the Colorado Attorney General's Office in 2013, in the Air Quality unit. I am now the First Assistant Attorney General for that unit. My team is responsible for advising several client agencies, primarily the Air Pollution Control Division at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, and the State's Office of Environmental Justice, as they work in the areas of air quality, climate change, and environmental justice. I live in Denver, with my partner, two kids, and puppy.

Excited to be back in DC to celebrate my 25th reunion at GULC! During law school, I was the Editor in Chief of the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, and I have continued to work in this field since graduating. I started by spending a year at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, looking at human rights norms that prevent the removal of foreign nationals. I then spent nearly eight years at Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, a global immigration law firm, in their New York, Brussels and San Francisco offices. I switched gears and joined the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals as a Staff Attorney, working on immigration-related appellate matters for five years. About 10 years ago, I returned to private practice and started a boutique immigration law firm based in Oakland, California. My firm focuses on employment-based immigration, representing employers and skilled workers across industries, as well as family-based immigration, assisting U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents in reunifying with loved ones.

Outside of work, I enjoy running, hanging out with my two kids (ages 7 and 13), and our annual holiday in Maui.

Looking forward to celebrating our 25th reunion in October! Excited to catch up with everyone and hear about the incredible journeys we’ve all taken since graduation. It will be wonderful to reconnect, share memories, and make new ones together.

Since getting my LL.M. in 2000, I worked for over five years as a business and finance associate at Washington, D.C. firm Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells), then moved in-house to a large D.C.-based nonprofit Conservation International where I served as associate general counsel for a couple of years, and in 2006 I joined the Inter-American Development Bank also in D.C., where I currently supervise the legal work in operations in several South American countries, and also provide institutional legal support to venture capital and innovation hub IDB Lab. I am also cochair and a member of the board of UK-based nonprofit ALIFDO, the Association of Lawyers in Intergovernmental Finance and Development Organisations. Among the things I appreciate the most about D.C. is the vibrant cultural life that this cosmopolitan city offers, and the quality of life that one can lead with beautiful parks and the outdoors. Wolfgang (Bergthaler, LL.M.’00) and I are happy to be raising our daughters here. I can’t wait to see my fellow Class of 2000 LL.Ms. at our 25-year reunion!

Since graduating 25 years ago (holy cow!), I have primarily focused on a life of diplomacy. I did start at a law firm, working for O'Melveny & Myers in Century City directly out of law school practicing corporate entertainment law, but then pivoted my career in 2003 to join the US Department of States. Since then, I've lived and worked in New York (kind of like a foreign country for a Califonian like me), Vienna, Madrid, Kabul, Luxembourg, Rome and am now based in Brussels. I have two teenage kids who live in Rotterdam and come often to Brussels. I have kept in touch with many of my GULC friends and am excited to see everyone at the reunion!

Looking forward to hearing of the trials (literally and figuratively) and tribulations of the last 30 years through the notes and at Reunion! I've been fortunate in my family and the friends I have made in practice and in my "second shift" raising our 4 kids. Tom and I are seeing light at the end of the tunnel as our youngest graduates from high school in 2026. Being a 40 Act lawyer was not what I anticipated in 1995 but how many of us are doing what we "planned" in 1995?! And I've loved driving by GULC for several years daily taking kids to Gonzaga and seeing all of the change on campus - if you have not been back, make the trip, you won't believe it!

What a quick and amazing last 30 years. I just finished up a fantastic fellowship at Georgetown's Institute of Politics and Public Service this Spring semester, spending time on both the Hilltop Campus and in our old haunts of the Capitol Campus, having my views and beliefs challenged and questioned by a truly engaging set of students (and alumni). It was a great way to refresh myself after having served as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce during the four years of the Biden Administration. I'm in the process of starting up a few ventures and figuring out what I want to be when I grow up. Really looking forward to our reunion later this year!

Hello, Class of 1995! Very excited to see you all soon! After graduation, I moved to Wilmington, Delaware to clerk for United States District Court Judge Murray M. Schwartz and had a fantastic time learning all about the inner workings of the federal trial courts and exploring a new city. My district court clerkship was followed by a federal appellate clerkship on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, where I clerked for then-Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. in Newark, New Jersey. This was an incredible experience working on federal appellate cases with a brilliant judge and amazing co-clerks. As part of his appellate clerk family, I was involved in Judge Alito’s 2006 nomination to the United States Supreme Court, including standing with President George W. Bush and other clerks at a White House press conference, meeting the President and his staff in the Oval Office, and even appearing on a television commercial during the confirmation process! This was an incredibly exciting time for all of us who had the privilege of clerking for Justice Alito during his Third Circuit days. After clerking, I went to work at Skadden in Washington, DC in the litigation and white collar group. A few years later, I joined the litigation group at Sidley Austin, where I worked in a variety of areas from securities, white collar, health care, and appellate litigation. I married a corporate tax lawyer (who received his LLM from Georgetown Law) in 2002. We later moved to Westchester County, New York to be closer to the M&A action, and I retired from practice after the birth of our third child in 2006. We currently live down the street from another GULC lawyer and we have several mutual friends from our Georgetown Law days. My husband Richard and I have five children ages 15-21, and our three eldest children are current undergraduate students at Georgetown University. It has been an incredible joy and blessing to see our children at Georgetown and continue another generation of connection with the university. I’ve also run into a couple of GULC Class of 1995 classmates who have their own children at Georgetown while moving our kids into their dorms (and recognized them immediately!) I’m looking forward to returning to Georgetown Law for our 30th reunion and reconnecting with you all!