05 Oct 2011
Stephen H. Legomsky Appointed USCIS Chief Counsel
"Stephen H. Legomsky, JD, DPhil, the John S. Lehmann University Professor at the School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, has been appointed chief counsel for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), effective Oct. 24, 2011, announced Ivan Fong, General Counsel of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Legomsky is an authority on U.S., comparative and international immigration, refugee and citizenship law and policy. He will be taking a leave of absence from the law school to assume this position effective October 24 and moving to Washington shortly before that."