Katharine Ruhl received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Wellesley College in 2001, and her J.D. from the University of California, Davis in 2007. Ms. Ruhl comes to the Law Offices of Matthew H. Green following four and half years as a Staff Attorney with the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project. At the Project, Ms. Ruhl provided both pro-bono representation and pro se assistance for the approximately 3,000 adult persons detained in Florence or Eloy at any given time. Before law school, she began working with immigrants and refugees as a Paralegal at the Nationalities Service Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a law student, she was active in the UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic, where she represented asylum seekers and advised public defenders on immigration consequences of criminal convictions. As a Judith Stronach Women's Human Rights Fellows with the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, Ms. Ruhl authored a report and law review article on violence against women in Guatemala. She also joined two other Fellows to contribute a chapter in Terrorizing Women: Femicide in the Americas, published by Duke University Press in 2010. She was chosen by her piers in the UC Davis Public Service Law Program to receive the 2007 Martin Luther King, Jr. Service Award for dedication to public service law.
