Jacqueline Brown

Jacqueline Brown is an Associate Professor and Director of the Immigration and Deportation Defense Clinic. Jacqueline began her career in immigration law in 2005 at the SF Immigration Court as an attorney advisor through the DOJ Honors Program. There, she wrote hundreds of orders and written decisions for the Immigration Judges. When working at her firm, she dedicated a significant part of her private practice to providing pro bono legal representation to children in removal proceedings. She has also worked with CLINIC’s National Pro Bono Project for Children and CLESPA. 

With Founding Director Bill Ong Hing, Jacqueline started the Immigration & Deportation Defense Clinic in 2015. Through the Clinic, staff and law students provide pro bono legal representation to immigrants in immigration court.  The clinic also assists children who are eligible for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS)with their state court findings in family and probate court all over California.  Jacqueline is an expert in asylum law and SIJS.  In addition to running the Immigration and Deportation Defense Clinic, she teaches U.S. Asylum Law and Family Law.

• Immigration law
• Asylum law
• Family law

• JD, University of San Francisco
• MA, San Francisco State University
• BS, Saint Lawrence University