On June 26, 2020, the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) announced the appointment of a new administrative law judge [PDF version].
Attorney General William P. Barr appointed Carol A. Bell as the administrative law judge in the EOIR’s Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer. She took her position on June 22.
Judge Bell spent the last 12 years serving as an assistant U.S. Attorney with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois. From 2002 to 2008, she served as a trial attorney with the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) Antitrust Division. From 2000 to 2002, Judge Bell served as a law clerk for the U.S. District Court in Houston.
Judge Bell obtained a Juris Doctorate from Harvard University in 2000.
