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October 8, 1998

ASSISTANT CHIEF IMMIGRATION JUDGE TAKES OATH OF OFFICE

IN ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA --Victoria E. Young will be sworn in today as an Assistant Chief Immigration Judge during an investiture ceremony at 3:00 p.m., in Courtroom 1, United States Immigration Court, 901 North Stuart Street, Arlington, Virginia. Chief Immigration Judge Michael J. Creppy, from the Executive Office for Immigration Review in Falls Church, Virginia, will administer the oath of office.

Judge Young joins the ranks of some 200 Immigration Judges located in more than 40 Immigration Courts throughout the Nation. They are responsible for conducting formal administrative proceedings to determine whether foreign-born individuals who are charged with violations of Federal immigration law should be removed from the United States or may be granted relief from removal. Immigration Judges decide each case independently and their decisions are final unless appealed or certified to the Board of Immigration Appeals. In the past year, Immigration Judges completed more than 260,000 such proceedings. They are also authorized to administer oaths of citizenship to candidates for naturalization.

Judge Young was appointed Assistant Chief Immigration Judge in July 1998. She received her B.A. in 1976 from the University of Arkansas, and her J.D. in 1981 from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law. From 1995 to July 1998, Judge Young worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in San Francisco, California. She served as U.S. Trustee in New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1992 to 1995, and as Assistant U.S. Trustee in Shreveport, Louisiana, from 1988 to 1992. Judge Young worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Shreveport from 1986 to 1988. She served as a Staff Attorney with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of General Counsel, in Little Rock, Arkansas, from 1982 to 1986. Judge Young worked as a Law Clerk for Judge Thomas Glaze in the Arkansas Court of Appeals, Little Rock, from 1981 to 1982. She is a member of the Arkansas Bar.

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