Margaret Stock is an EB-5 immigration attorney who focuses solely on immigration and citizenship law for Lane Powell Attorneys & Counselors in Anchorage, Ala. Attorney Stock is nationally recognized as an expert on immigration and national security law. She has testified regularly before various congressional committees on topics such as immigration, military issues and homeland security. Attorney Stock is a retired lieutenant colonel who served in the U.S. Army Reserve Military Police. She has served as a professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point and has also taught at the University of Alaska, where she was an adjunct instructor.
From 2008 to 2012, attorney Stock was a member of the American Bar Association Commission on Immigration. She regularly writes articles that cover military-related immigration matters, including her book titled Immigration Law & the Military, which was published in 2012 by the American Immigration Lawyers Association. She has given several print and television interviews related to immigration.
Attorney Stock earned her undergraduate degree, with honors, in government from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges in 1985. She earned her law degree, with honors, from Harvard Law School in 1992, earned her Master of Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in 2001, and earned a Master of Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College in 2006. She is admitted to practice before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska and in all Alaska state courts.
Attorney Stock is extremely active in the legal community. She was the founding chair of the Alaska Bar Association’s Immigration Law Section, is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, has held numerous leadership positions on immigration committees of the American Bar Association, is a member of the New York City Bar Association, and a member of the Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy. Attorney Stock is also a fellow of the American Bar Foundation.