Rebecca Desnoyers is an Associate Attorney at Wilson Law Group, where she focuses on immigration law. Rebecca’s practice within immigration law includes family and employment-based immigration, asylum, removal defense, and naturalization. Rebecca earned her JD from William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota in January 2009, and was admitted to the Minnesota bar in May 2009. She is admitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. Rebecca is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild. She has an undergraduate degree in Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In law school, Rebecca was active in the immigration clinic and served as a judicial extern for the Hon. Judge Gregg E. Johnson at the Minnesota Second Judicial District. Rebecca is co-author of the publication, Case Note: Orozco v. Mukasey: When an Entry May Not Be an “Admission” and the Fundamental Problems with the Ninth Circuit’s Analysis, 35 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 68 (2008). Before law school, Rebecca worked as a paralegal at Van Der Hout, Brigagliano & Nightingale, LLP, a full-service immigration law firm in San Francisco. Rebecca has studied abroad in the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica, and is fluent in Spanish.
