Ms. Minear served as AILA's President for 2020-2021 and is a director in the Immigration Practice Group at McCandlish Holton in Richmond, VA, where her practice focuses on employment-based immigration, with a particular emphasis on the healthcare sector, including J-1 waiver and green card processing for foreign medical graduates.

Immigration and naturalization attorney, senior and managing partner of Margaret W. Wong & Associates since 1978, with seven locations in Cleveland, New York, LA, Chicago, Atlanta, Nashville, and Columbus.