Rebecca Walters
Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
Washington College of Law
Degrees
B.A., University of Virginia, 2005 J.D., American University Washington College of Law, 2010 (summa cum laude)
Bio
Rebecca J. Walters was appointed by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in September 2021 to serve as an Assistant Chief Immigration Judge with the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) within the United States Department of Justice. Judge Walters serves as the Assistant Chief Immigration Judge to the Annandale Immigration Court and the Falls Church Immigration Adjudication Center.
Judge Walters earned a Bachelor of Arts in 2005 from the University of Virginia and a Juris Doctor in 2010 from the American University Washington College of Law, graduating summa cum laude. From 2005 to 2007, she served as the Staff Assistant to the American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration. From 2010 to 2012, Judge Walters served as a Skadden Fellow at Ayuda, a non-profit organization based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region, where she provided direct representation to low-income immigrants, with a focus on serving vulnerable populations including domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking survivors, and unaccompanied immigrant children. Following her fellowship, Judge Walters continued at Ayuda’s Virginia office as a Staff Attorney from 2012-2014, a Supervising Attorney from 2014-2019, and as Managing Attorney from 2019-2021. Judge Walters is a member of the Virginia State Bar. She is a native of southwest Virginia and she speaks Spanish and French.
