Judge Bruce J. Einhorn (Ret.)

From July 1990 through January 2007, Bruce J. Einhorn served as a United States Immigration Judge for Los Angeles. Prior to his judicial service, Judge Einhorn worked as a special prosecutor and Chief of Litigation for the Office of Investigations of the U.S. Department of Justice, the agency responsible for seeking the identification and prosecution of fugitive Nazi war criminals in the United States. As a Justice Department lawyer, he also helped draft the U.S. law on asylum. He has written and lectured widely on U.S. and international refugee policies. Judge Einhorn is a Lifetime National Commissioner of the Anti-Defamation League ("ADL"), and a member of the ACLU, People for the American Way, and the American Academy of Political Science. Einhorn is an Adjunct Professor of International Human Rights Law and War Crimes Studies at the Pepperdine University School of Law. He is a self-described "unreconstructed New Deal Democrat" whose political hero is the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and whose judicial heroes include the late Supreme Court Justices William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall. In 1999, Bruce Einhorn received the ADL National Leadership in Civil Rights Award in a ceremony at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia - the home pulpit of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.