Angenette Van Lieu-Muños, J.D., LL.M.

Angenette Van Lieu-Muños is a founding partner of the Campos Muños law firm.Angenette is of Venezuelan and French descent and lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. 
 

Angenette received a Bachelor of Arts from the Residential College Program at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor in 2008. She double majored in the Residential College Social Sciences Studies (Political Science and Theory) and Latin American and Caribbean Studies. During her time in Ann Arbor, Angenette studied and passed the immersion Spanish language program at the Residential College. Her senior project was a thesis on democracy in Mexico, specifically focused on the social movements in Oaxaca. She was also a James B. Angell scholar. 
 

Angenette then continued her education at the University of Detroit-Mercy School of Law, graduating in 2011, and has been a member of the State Bar of Michigan since 2012. During her legal education, Angenette was president of the chapter of the National Lawyer’s Guild. 
 

From 2015 to 2016, Angenette pursued a post-doctorate in International Human Rights Law at Northeastern University's Master of Laws program in Boston, Massachusetts. She was a fellow in the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy and the teaching assistant for the international law and research program. Angenette’s article on women’s rights issues in El Salvador and Guatemala was published in the law review at Northeastern University in 2016. 
 

Angenette primarily began her career working in non-profit support for refugees and immigrants. Angenette began working in immigration law at the Diocese of Kalamazoo legal program in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Angenette then served as a staff attorney, and subsequently, a supervising attorney at Catholic Charities-the Archdiocese of New Orleans from 2017 to 2021. In her role at Catholic Charities, Angenette managed several legal programs–including citizenship, domestic violence, and serving unaccompanied alien children in immigration court.

Angenette is a part-time attorney with the Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence pro bono program. She has also served as a part-time attorney with Catholic Charities, the Archdiocese of New Orleans and Home is Here, NOLA. 
 

Angenette’s passion within immigration law practice, and focus in her career today, is on serving survivors of torture, domestic, and sexual violence, in their cases before USCIS and immigration court in several US cities.  She specializes in humanitarian forms of relief and family based cases. Angenette works in all 50 states. 
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Practicing exclusively immigration law. Licensed in the State of Michigan.