Evan Franke, J.D.

Mr. Franke serves as a Special Counsel in the Office of the Chief Counsel for United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). He also serves as a board member for the Board for Correction of Military Records for the United States Coast Guard. He recently served a temporary assignment to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California as a Special Assistant United States Attorney (May to November 2023).

Mr. Franke began his career as an attorney through the Attorney General's Honors Program in August 1998 and was assigned to work as a trial attorney for the Immigration and Naturalization Service in San Francisco, California. He served on the INS General Counsel's Homeland Security Transition Team at INS Headquarters in Washington, D.C. and worked as a trial attorney for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Francisco before transferring to USCIS, where he has also worked as a General Attorney and Supervisory General Attorney.

Prior to studying the law, Mr. Franke conducted archaeological fieldwork in Peru, Bolivia and Argentina.