Melody Vidmar, Esq.

Staff Attorney

Melody Vidmar is a Staff Attorney with CAIR Coalition’s Immigration Impact Lab. She brings impact litigation actions on behalf of detained immigrants in immigration and federal courts.

Melody graduated cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, where she earned her J.D. and Certificate in Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies. While at Georgetown, she represented an asylum seeker in immigration court as part of Georgetown Law’s immigration clinic and conducted intake for the clinic as a staff member. Throughout her law school career, Melody worked on criminal justice and prison reform issues in Alaska and Massachusetts through the ACLU of Alaska and Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts. She conducted field research and advocated for fishermen in Hawaii vulnerable to forced labor practices as part of Georgetown’s Human Rights Institute.

Melody received Bachelor of Arts degrees in Anthropology and Spanish from the University of Oklahoma, summa cum laude, in 2016. She is admitted to practice law in Virginia, the Eastern and Western District Courts of Virginia, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

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