Margaret C. Hu
Senior Lecturing Fellow
Margaret Hu serves as Special Policy Counsel in the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC), Civil Rights Division, U. S. Department of Justice, in Washington, D.C. As Special Policy Counsel, Ms. Hu manages a team of attorney and investigators in the enforcement of the anti-discrimination provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), and is responsible for federal immigration policy review and coordination for OSC.
She received her BA in East Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of Kansas and her J.D. from Duke Law School. Ms. Hu is a Truman Scholar, Alternate Marshall Scholar, Foreign Language Studies Scholar, and recipient of a Duke Law School Merit Scholarship. She clerked for Judge Rosemary Barkett on U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and subsequently joined the U.S. Department of Justice through Attorney General’s Honors Program under Attorney General Janet Reno.
Ms. Hu has served in various leadership positions, including Vice Chair, Kansas Commission for National and Community Service by gubernatorial appointment (Governor Joan Finney (D)); Board of Directors, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum; Board of Directors University of Kansas Memorial Corporation; National Governing Board, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum; and Dean’s Advisory Council, Duke Law School.