Sherease R. Pratt

Sherease R. Pratt was appointed as an Immigration Judge to begin hearing cases in February 2023. Judge Pratt ear ned a Bachelor of Science in 1987 from Cornell University and a Juris Doctor in 1993 from Tulane University School of Law. From 2018 to 2022, she was a senior litigation counsel with the Appellate Court Section, Office of Immigration Litigation (OIL), Civil Division, Department of Justice (DOJ). From 2008 to 2018, she served as a trial attorney and later a senior litigation counsel with the District Court Section, OIL. In 2013, while on temporary details, she served as a trial attorney in DOJ's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Criminal Division, and as a special assistant to the Counselor to the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Blue Campaign Against Human Trafficking, Office of the Secretary. From 1993 to 2008, she served as a staff attorney in the Offices of the Chief Counsel and General Counsel for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. In 2007 and 2008, while on temporary details, she served as a special assistant U.S. attorney in both the Civil and Criminal Divisions of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia. Judge Pratt is a member of the New York State Bar.

As published by the Executive Office for Immigration Review at appointment, via TRAC.