Daniel Levi Swanwick graduates from Georgetown Law

Daniel Levi Swanwick graduated last month with a Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. He graduated Cum Laude and with a Certificate in Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies. He fulfilled a Pro Bono Pledge, which requires 75 or more hours of law-related volunteer work. He was listed on the Dean's List in 2005-06 and 2006-07. He served as the Article Selection Editor of the Georgetown Immigration Law and published a student article in that journal titled "Foreign Policy and Humanitarianism in U.S. Asylum Adjudication: Revisiting the Debate in the Wake of the War on Terror."

Swanwick successfully represented an applicant for political asylum before the U.S. Immigration Court. He served internships for the U.S. Department of Justice, the American Bar Association, and Carliner and Remes, P.C. In September, he will begin his employment as a Judicial Law Clerk at the Headquarters Federal Immigration Court in Fall Church, Va.

Swanwick graduated from Fort Scott High School in 1996 and from Duke University in 2000 with degrees in Linguisitics and Computer Science. He and his wife Catherine, who is completing post-doctoral neurological research at the National Institutes of Health, currently live in Chevy Chase, Md. He is the son of Daryl and Nancy Swanwick of Fort Scott, and the grandson of F.D. and Alma Swanwick of Oswego, Barbara Austin of Parsons, and the late Kirk Austin.