Katharine Elizabeth Ruhl

Katharine Ruhl is the Managing Attorney for the Adult Pro Bono Team at the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project in Arizona, where she has worked for a total of over twelve years. The Florence Project serves adults and children detained by ICE in Arizona. Their clients include unaccompanied minor children, asylum seekers, applicants for T visas (based on trafficking) and U visas (based on crime), and refugees and lawful permanent resident facing removal, among others. While in private practice, Ms. Ruhl advised criminal defense attorneys in Arizona on the immigration consequences of criminal convictions, and in 2016, collaborated with the Immigration Legal Resource Center, the Maricopa County Office of the Public Defender, the Florence Project and others to update Arizona’s Quick Reference Chart for Determining Immigration Consequences of Arizona Offenses. Her practice has primarily focused on deportation defense, particularly in the detained context.