Margaret D. Stock

Margaret Stock focuses her practice on immigration and citizenship law. She is a nationally known expert on immigration and national security laws, and has testified regularly before Congressional committees on immigration, homeland security, and military matters. As a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Military Police, U.S. Army Reserve, Margaret has extensive experience with U.S. military issues. She has also worked as a professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and as an adjunct instructor at the University of Alaska. Margaret has served on the board of the Federal Bar Association’s Immigration Law Section and is a former member of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration. In 2013, she was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow (“genius grant” recipient) by the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Areas Of Practice

• Immigration & Naturalization Law
• Military Law

Bar Admissions

• Alaska
• U.S. District Court, District of Alaska
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit

Education

• Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• J.D. – 1992
• U.S. Army War College
• Master of Strategic Studies, 2006

• Harvard Kennedy School of Government
• M.P.A. – 2002
• Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges
• A.B. – Government

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association
• American Immigration Lawyers Association
• Association of the Bar of the City of New York
• Federal Bar Association
• Fellowship of Fort Knox Immigration Lawyers

Past Employment Positions

• Lane Powell, LLC, Anchorage, AK, Counsel to the Firm, 2011 to 2013
• Department of Political Science, University of Alaska Anchorage, Adjunct Instructor, 2010 to 2012
• Border Policy Research Institute, Western Washington University, Visiting Fellow, 2009
• United States Military Academy at West Point, Associate Professor (Reservist), Department of Social Sciences, 2006 to 2010
• United States Military Academy at West Point, Associate Professor, Department of Law, 2004 to 2006
• United States Military Academy at West Point, Assistant Professor, Department of Law, 2001 to 2004
• Stock & Moeller, LLC, Partner, 1998 to 2001
• Atkinson, Conway & Gagnon, Associate, 1992 to 1998

Pro Bono Activities

• American Immigration Lawyers Association Military Assistance Program

Languages

• English
• Spanish