Jennifer Nissen is an associate attorney with Hochstatter, McCarthy, Rivas & Runde, S.C. and has been working with the firm since January 2005. Jenny graduated cum laude from the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison, Wisconsin in May 2005 and obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in December 1998. Between those academic programs, she spent a year working as an Americorps*VISTA volunteer and two years working in social services. She is a member of the Milwaukee and Wisconsin Bar Associations.  Jenny has studied Spanish in Guatemala.

Ruth Ingraham has over fifteen years experience in the immigration field.  She last held the position of Director of Immigration and Social Services at the International Institute of Wisconsin.  As Director and Accredited Representative before the United States Citizenship & Immigration Services (formerly INS), Ms. Ingraham advocated for and assisted immigrants and refugees.  She has conducted immigration workshops to service providers and to the general public.  She served as a trustee for Catholic Social Services’ Board of Trustees from 1997 to 1999.  She speaks English and Spanish.  Ms. Ingraham holds a BA in Sociology from the Federico Villarreal University, Lima, Peru, her country of birth.

With over ten years at Hochstatter, McCarthy, Rivas & Runde, S.C., Gillian Stewart is our firm's most senior paralegal. She has experience with business and family immigration cases of all kinds, with particular expertise in business and professional immigrant and nonimmigrant visas, physicians and nurses, and university professors and researchers.  Gillian received a bachelor of arts degree, joint honors in English literature and drama  from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom.  She was educated in French as a child in Lebanon and lived in Paris from 1971 to 1989. Her employers in Paris included UNESCO, an international manufacturer, and an international intellectual property law firm.  In addition to her fluency in French, Gillian has good basic knowledge of German.