Officers

Officers

Hon. Holly D'AndreaPresident

City, State: Conroe, Texas

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Judge D’Andrea earned her undergraduate degree in Political Science – Constitutional Law from Oklahoma State University. She graduated from Saint Louis University’s School of Law in 2006 and holds bar licenses in both Texas and Missouri.

Judge D’Andrea’s career started with a solo practice and years as a First Assistant Prosecutor in the Ozarks of Missouri. In 2011, she moved to Brownsville, Texas, serving as a Border AUSA, living and working at the heart of America’s immigration issues for eight years.

From August 2016 until August 2017, she had the privilege of serving as the Border and Immigration Legal Issues Coordinator at the Executive Office for United States Attorneys. In this national role, she was a national subject matter expert on immigration matters. She spent the year advising the appointed U.S. Attorneys and AUSAs on criminal immigration matters, immersed in drafting statutes, shaping policy, and preparing for the presidential transition to coordinate immigration policy both within and beyond U.S. borders.

In August 2017, Judge D’Andrea returned to Brownsville and joined the appellate division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas. After authoring numerous circuit-level immigration appellate briefs, she returned to U.S. District Court, litigating several impactful immigration cases and preparing them for appeal.

Attorney General William Barr appointed Holly A. D’Andrea as an Immigration Judge in May 2019.

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Hon. Jeremiah JohnsonExecutive Vice President

City, State: San Francisco, California

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed Jeremiah Johnson to begin hearing cases in October 2017. Judge Johnson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1996 from Randolph Macon College and a Juris Doctor in 2003 from the University of San Francisco School of Law. From 2016 to 2017, he served as an asylum officer for the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, in San Francisco. From 2011 to 2016, he was a partner at Johnson & McDermed LLP, in San Francisco. From 2005 to 2011, he was a partner at Reeves & Associates, in San Francisco. From 2004 to 2005, he was an attorney at the Law Offices of Shawn Sedaghat, in Los Angeles. From 2003 to 2004, he was a research attorney at Van Der Hout, Brigagliano, & Nightingale LLP, in San Francisco. Judge Johnson is a member of the California State Bar.

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Hon. Dorothy HarbeckSecretary-Treasurer

City, State: Elizabeth, NJ
Phone: (908) 787-1351

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The Honorable Dorothy Harbeck was appointed to the Elizabeth, NJ Immigration Court in 2006 and transferred to the New York City Immigration Court in 2019. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Wellesley College, with honors in English and a special studies certificate with honors from the Universite’ Catholique De L’Ouest in Angers, France. She earned her Juris Doctor from Seton Hall University School of Law, where she was awarded the ASCAP/Nathan Burkan Prize for a meritorious paper on the use of demonstrative evidence in musical copyright infringement cases. She attended a program on comparative law at Jesus College, Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. She also received a certificate in trial advocacy skills from the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Judge Harbeck’s particular research interests include the presentation of evidence in trial court. She is an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School (Trial Skills), Seton Hall University School of Law (Persuasion & Advocacy) and Rutgers University School of Law in Newark (Immigration & Nationality). She is a faculty member at the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs at Wellesley College, where she has taught on the history of citizenship. She also teaches deposition skills for NITA and has been a lecturer and the immigration law program coordinator for the New Jersey Judicial College (NJJC).

She has published articles in Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, Seton Hall Legislative Journal, Rutgers Law Record, Fordham Urban Law Journal, St. John’s University Journal of International and Comparative Law, Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal, Federal Lawyer, ABA Judges Journal, Immigration Law Advisor, New Jersey Law Journal, and New Jersey Lawyer. Judge Harbeck has been an author and lecturer for NJICLE for more than fifteen years. She was a panelist comparing U.S. asylum procedures with Italian asylum procedures at the 2013 NJSBA Mid-Year Conference in Rome, Italy, a panelist on Human Trafficking at the 2014 NJSBA Mid-Year Conference in Paris, France and a panelist on Effective Trial Skills at the 2016 NJSBA Mid-Year Conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Further, she was NAIJ’s representative to the UNHCR—The UN Refugee Agency for its project on creating its Legal Representation Manual for Stateless Persons in the United States in 2017.

She is a member of the executive board of the Federal Bar Association – Immigration Law Section and was recognized by two separate FBA components for her efforts in education and legal scholarship. For her CLE and publication efforts, she was appointed as a Fellow of the Federal Bar Foundation in 2014.

Prior to her appointment to the bench, Judge Harbeck was a litigation attorney in private practice. She has tried civil jury cases and New Jersey Department of Labor cases. She has argued in trial and appellate courts at both the state and federal levels including the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. She is a former Assistant Warren County Counsel and former alternate municipal prosecutor for Atco Township, Camden County. She is a master at the Haydn Proctor Inn of Court (Monmouth County, NJ), where she was initially a pupil in its inaugural class approximately 25 years ago. Judge Harbeck is a member of the N.J. and N.Y. state bars.

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Hon. Lena GolovninVice President - Eastern Region

City, State: New York, NY

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed Lena Golovnin to begin hearing cases in August 2018. Judge Golovnin earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2002 from Hunter College and a Juris Doctor in 2008 from the Thomas M. Cooley Law School. From 2010 to 2018, she was assistant chief counsel for the Office of the Chief Counsel, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security in New York City. From 2009 to 2010, she was attorney advisor for the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), Department of Justice (DOJ), also in New York. From 2008 to 2009, she was a judicial law clerk and later attorney advisor for EOIR, DOJ in San Antonio, Texas. Judge Golovnin is a member of the New York State Bar and the State Bar of Michigan.

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