About Us
Bonita B. Hwang Cho is a partner in the Law Offices of Cheng, Cho & Yee, where she concentrates on immigration and nationality law. She received her J.D. degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law and her B.S. degree in Business Administration at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Ms. Hwang Cho is a past president of the Korean American Bar Association and is also a member and past co-chair for the Asylum Committee of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. She has also previously chaired the Immigration Law Committee for the Young Lawyers Division of the Chicago Bar Association. Ms. Hwang Cho is currently chairing the EOIR Committee for the Chicago chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, and she is co-chairing the Solo/Small Firm Committee of the National Asian and Pacific American Bar Association.
Ms. Hwang Cho also recently argued and won a case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. The court held that where a Chicago Immigration Judge reversed a Cincinnati Immigration Judge's decision on a motion to reopen and rescind an in absentia removal order, that reversal was an abuse of discretion.
Therese M. Yee, a Chicago native, is a partner in the Law Offices of Cheng, Cho & Yee, concentrating in immigration law. She received her J.D. from DePaul University, College of Law, in Chicago, in 1977, and was admitted to the Illinois state bar that same year. Ms. Yee is the founding president and a member of the Chinese American Bar Association. She is also a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
Prior to joining Cheng, Cho & Yee, Ms. Yee was a staff attorney at the Will County Legal Assistance Program in Joliet, Illinois, and at the Midwest Regional Office of the Legal Services Corporation, in Chicago, and a sole practitioner.
In 2005, 2006 and 2007, Ms. Yee was voted as an Immigration Super Lawyer in Chicago by lawyers in Illinois.
Ms. Yee is an active member of her community, having served as a parent representative in the Decatur Classical School Local School Council from 1989 to 1999. Since 1990 she has been on the board of the Howard Area Community Center, a social service agency serving the low-income community in Chicago's north side, and has served as secretary, vice president and president of the board, as well as chair of the human resource committee over various terms of office.