Angenette Van Lieu-Muños, J.D., LL.M.

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

 

Angenette earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the Residential College of the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, where she double-majored in the Residential College's Social Sciences program (Political Science and Theory) and in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She also completed and passed the Residential College's intensive Spanish immersion program. Her thesis project focused on democracy in Mexico, specifically on social movements in Oaxaca, and she was recognized as a James B. Angell Scholar.

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She later continued her studies at the University of Detroit-Mercy College of Law, where she graduated in 2011 and has been a member of the Michigan State Bar since 2012. During her studies, Angenette was president of the local chapter of the National Lawyers Guild.

 

Between 2015 and 2016, Angenette completed a postdoctoral fellowship in International Human Rights Law in the Master of Laws (LL.M.) program at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. She was a fellow of the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy and a teaching assistant for the international law and legal research course. Her article on women's rights in El Salvador and Guatemala was published in Northeastern University's Law Review in 2016.

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Angenette began her professional career in the nonprofit sector, providing legal support to refugees and immigrants. She started her work in immigration law with the legal program of the Diocese of Kalamazoo in Michigan. Later, she served as a staff attorney and subsequently as a supervising attorney at Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of New Orleans, from 2017 to 2021. In that role, she directed several legal programs, including those related to citizenship, domestic violence, and representation of unaccompanied minors in immigration court.

 

Currently, Angenette works part-time as an attorney with the Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence's pro bono program. She has also provided part-time legal services to Catholic Charities, the Archdiocese of New Orleans, and Home is Here NOLA.

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Her passion within the practice of immigration law is representing survivors of torture, domestic violence, and sexual violence in their cases before USCIS and immigration courts in various cities across the United States. She specializes in humanitarian relief and family-based cases, and practices in all 50 states.

 

Practices exclusively in immigration law. Licensed in the State of Michigan.