Yun Jung Yang is the Managing Partner of Law Offices of Yun Jung Yang, LLC, a Silver Spring, Maryland-based boutique firm specialized in the practice of immigration law.   Ms. Yang is also active in the community and currently is the Chair of the American Red Cross – National Diversity Advisory Council, and is the Executive Vice President for the Korean American Women’s Society of Maryland.

 

She served as Vice-President of the National Unification Advisory Council of The Republic of Korea (2014-2017), a Commissioner for the Maryland Governors Commission of Asian Pacific American Affairs (2011-2015), President of the Korean American Women’s Chamber of Commerce (2011-2012), and a Commissioner on the Montgomery County Commission for Women (2002-2008). As a Commissioner, Ms. Yang focused on raising awareness of the special needs of immigrant women in the State of Maryland and Montgomery County. In 2006, she was awarded the Women of Achievement Award by the Montgomery County Business & Professional Women.   She was appointed to the Maryland Commission for Women in 2015, and chairs its Voices of Maryland Women Listening Tour.  She traveled to the Republic of Moldova in April 2017, sponsored by the American Councils for International Education, helping to launch the Voices of Moldovan Women in that Eastern European nation.

 

Ms. Yang received her J.D. from Howard University School of Law and is admitted to practice law in Maryland and the District of Columbia. She is fluent in English and Korean.