Peggy Bristol Wright

Peggy Bristol has practiced immigration law in the Bay Area since June 2011, representing clients from Mexico, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Haiti, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, Ethiopia, Yemen, Senegal, Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, Turkey, Mongolia, Fiji and Italy. Her father was a Trinidadian immigrant; from her Brooklyn mother and grandmother she learned her first Spanish.  She and her staff have won over 65 asylum cases and over 150 Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) cases that require special custody petitions in superior courts in over ten Northern California counties from Shasta to Monterey. Her office has represented hundreds of clients in immigration courts over the years, and each "case closed" is grounds for celebration, especially as so many cases have languished in immigration courts in recent years due to changing political policies and the COVID-19 pandemic. Peggy has taught as an adjunct faculty member at Contra Costa College and Drivon School of Law at Humphreys University, has participated in immigration workshops and seminars in the San Francisco Bay Area. and has helped lead “Train the Trainer” workshops for “Know Your Rights” advocates through the National Lawyers Guild. She was inducted into the Alameda County Women's Hall of Fame for her work with unaccompanied immigrant minors.  Peggy has participated in presentations at the 2018 American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Northern California Conference as well as Touro University, and was the guest editor for the September 2019 edition of the Contra Costa Lawyer magazine. Most recently, Peggy facilitated a presentation on the 2021 crises in Haiti and Afghanistan at the Alameda County Bar Association. Peggy received her BA and MA degrees from Azusa Pacific University and her JD from John F. Kennedy University School of Law. She has been a member of Tapestry Ministries, Berkeley since 2008. She is married to saxophonist, composer and arranger Art Springs, and between the two of them they have six amazing children and three grandchildren who are all geniuses.