Dana Leigh Marks

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Judge Marks was appointed as an Immigration Judge in January 1987. She received an undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1974, and a Juris Doctorate from the University of California, Hastings College of Law, in 1977. From 1978 to 1986, she was an attorney associate/partner for Simmons & Ungar in San Francisco. From 1976 to 1978, she worked as a law clerk/associate attorney for Stiller and Nervo, also in San Francisco. Judge Marks has served as a commissioner on the State Bar of California's Board of Legal Specialization, Immigration and Nationality Law Advisory Commission since 1994. She has been an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law since 1992, and taught immigration law at various San Francisco Bay Area law schools for five years before that. Judge Marks is a member of the California Bar.