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 professor 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.