Julia Day Marquez

Associate.  Julia Day Marquez has been practicing immigration law since 1995. She has worked on a broad range of cases, including deportation defense, asylum, family- and employment-based immigration, and naturalization cases. She has successfully represented clients before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Immigration Court, the Board of Immigration Appeals, the Administrative Appeals Unit, the U.S. Federal District Court, and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Ms. Marquez is a member of the America Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and currently serves as an AILA mentor, in which role she counsels and advises her peers in family-based immigration law. She has been a speaker for the National Association for Foreign Student Advisors (NAFSA), the American Immigration Lawyers Association, and the Immigrant Legal Referral Center. Topics she has addressed include investor visas, immigrant visa waivers and labor certification applications.

Ms. Marquez regularly finds time to work as a volunteer in the immigration community. She has worked for the Immigrant Legal Referral Center, providing consultations to low-income individuals at community meetings, and has represented a number of pro bono clients with HIV and AIDS through the AIDS Legal Referral Panel. She is a recipient of the State Bar of California's Wiley W. Manuel Award for Pro Bono Legal Services. Ms. Marquez was featured in the San Francisco University Law School Magazine for her work in deportation defense and asylum. Recently, she was selected to represent the Hispanic Community of Professionals and Executives in the 2006 edition of the United Who's Who Registry.

Ms. Marquez graduated cum laude from the University of San Francisco School of Law in May 1995. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of California, Davis, majoring in International Relations and minoring in Spanish. She also holds a master's degree in International Business, Suma Cum Laude from the Monterey Institute of International Studies. She is fluent in Spanish.

Prior to attending law school, Ms. Marquez worked for several years as a legal assistant at the International Institute of the East Bay and at the Spanish Speaking Citizens Foundation in Oakland, California. During law school, she worked as an intern at the Immigration Court in San Francisco. Ms. Marquez grew up in Berkeley and lives in Oakland with her husband and two children.