Jessica Chia is the Staff Attorney and NAPABA Law Foundation Partners and In-House Counsel Community Law Fellow at the Asian American Justice Center.
Prior to joining AAJC, Ms. Chia was a law clerk at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area. Previously she clerked at and the Asian Pacific American Legal Center in Los Angeles. Ms. Chia also served as an extern to federal magistrate judge Edward M. Chen, who President Obama has nominated to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Before attending law school, she spent a year working on immigration-related cases for the San Francisco-based law firm Berry Appleman & Leiden. She also worked as a legal intern for the Justice Department and the California Attorney General’s Office.
Ms. Chia holds a juris doctorate from the University of California-Los Angeles and a bachelor’s degree, with honors, from the University of California-Davis.
