Born in Rochester, Minnesota. Admitted to New York Bar, March 2005 (Exam Date: July 2004).
EDUCATION: University of Minnesota Law School (J.D. 2004); University of Iowa (B.A. 1999).
PROFESSIONAL: New York Bar Association; American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA); Chicago Bar Association.
Ms. Wilson joined Davidson & Schiller after working as a Trade Consultant with UBIFRANCE (The French Governmental Agency for International Business Development). While a law student at the University of Minnesota, Ms. Wilson was the recipient of the Upper Midwest Human Rights Fellowship Award in 2003. She also worked as an immigration legal intern with La League des droits de l’homme (League of Human Rights) in Paris, France, where she assisted attorneys on political asylum claims and family-based immigration. Ms. Wilson’s article entitled Piercing the Confidentiality Veil: Physician Testimony in International Criminal Trials Against Perpetrators of Torture was published in the Minnesota Journal of International Law (2006). In June 2006, Ms. Wilson was appointed General Counsel on Immigration for the French Consulate of Chicago. She is fluent in French.
At Davidson & Schiller, Ms. Wilson specializes in asylum law, deportation defense, crime and fraud waivers, HIV waivers, naturalization, and family-based immigration.
