Heather “Erika” Moretzsohn de Castro

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Education

2000 – 2004 Japan – Waseda University, School of International Law, Tokyo, Japan

2001 MIA/PIS, Political Science | University of Hawaii at Manoa

1999 JD, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii at Manoa

1992 – 1993 Japan – Ryukyu University, Japan

1991 B.A., George Washington University, Washington, DC

1987 – 1988 Austria – University of Salzburg, Austria

1987 Mexico – Goethe Institute, Guadalajara, Mexico

Membership

2013 United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas

2013 Corpus Christi Division Criminal Justice Law Panel

2010 United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

2008 United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Community Service Organizations

2010 – Present Rotary Club of Downtown Corpus Christi

2005 – Present Corpus Christi Sister Cities Committee

Employment

2025- DeCastro Immigration Law

2010 – 2024 Rodriguez & Moretzsohn, PLLC

2008 – 2010 Reina, Bates & Kowalski, PC, Corpus Christi, Texas

2005 – 2008 Harris & Greenwell, LLP, Corpus Christi, Texas

2001 – 2004 Stanton, Clay, Tom, Chapman, Crumpton & Iwamura , Honolulu, Hawaii

2001 Nisihi Law Firm, Tokyo, Japan

1999 – 2000 Honorable Gail Nakatani, Hawaii State Judge, Honolulu, Hawaii

1994 U.S. Consulate, Sao Paulo, Brazil

1991 U.S. Department of State U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye, Washington, DC

1988 – 1991 U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye, Washington, DC

Heather Moretzsohn has focused her practice in the field of Immigration Law. Born in Saipan and raised in Hawaii, she has had a variety of international experiences. Heather has lived and traveled extensively in Europe, Japan, Asia, and Latin America. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Japan, a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar in Austria, and has worked at the U.S. Department of State in both Washington DC and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Heather is a past Chair of the Corpus Christi Sister City Committee, where she established a new Sister City between Corpus Christi, Texas, and Playa del Carmen, Mexico.