Angela Richards

EMAIL:                                            arichards@huntleylaw.com

PHONE:                                           (208) 472-5690 ext: 226

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Family-Based Legalization, Consular Processing, Waivers, Naturalization, Asylum

EDUCATION

University of Minnesota Law School 2002

Oberline College

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild

American Immigration Lawyers Association

Idaho Women Lawyers, Inc.

LANGUAGES

Spanish and French proficiency

BACKGROUND

Angela was born and raised in Boise, Idaho and graduated from Boise High School in 1995. She attended Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, studying History with a minor in French. She studied abroad in Strasbourg, France during the spring semester of 1997. After graduating a semester early from college, she was employed as a clerk by the law firm of Moffatt Thomas in Boise, Idaho for eight months. She attended the University of Minnesota Law School in Minneapolis, Minnesota from 1999 until 2002 when she was awarded second place brief in Maynard Pirsig moot court and graduated magna cum laude.

During her summer breaks, Ms. Richards was employed as a Research Associate at the Minnesota House of Representatives Research Department in St. Paul, Minnesota and was awarded a human rights fellowship to intern at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Ankara, Turkey, where she decided claims of asylum-seekers primarily from Iran and Iraq.

Following law school, she clerked for the Honorable Kathryn Sticklen in the Fourth Judicial District for the State of Idaho for two years.

Her interest in immigration law began when she met a Kurdish refugee from Iraq while studying abroad in France. He and his family had fled his country when Saddam Hussein’s soldiers were attacking their home. His story had an enormous impact in her life and motivated her to help others who were similarly situated. She successfully filed two affirmative asylum applications as a student attorney at the Immigration Clinic at the University of Minnesota Law School and volunteered doing client intake at the Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights Refugee and Immigrant Program.

Ms. Richards enjoys hiking in the Boise foothills with her dog Bear, and crossword puzzles.