Johnna Main Bailey is an Partner in the Memphis office of Siskind Susser. She brings a breadth of experience to her practice, including complex family-based, humanitarian-based, and employment-based immigration. Her diverse practice includes finding employment-based options for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) recipients, DACA recipients, and asylum applicants. She handles J-1 home residency waivers based on persecution, and represents religious organizations petitioning religious workers.
Her practice includes assisting those with past immigration violations or criminal convictions requiring waivers. She also co-counsels with her clients and their criminal attorneys to advise on the consequences of criminal convictions.
Johnna has been part of the IMMpact Litigation team since it was founded in 2020. Within her own practice, she helps those facing unreasonable delays through federal litigation.
Prior to joining Siskind Susser, Johnna worked with a private law firm handling employment-based immigration and at a nonprofit assisting asylum seekers and other humanitarian forms of relief. Prior to law school, she worked at a refugee resettlement agency in Atlanta and Chicago, where she developed a strong interest in immigration law. She earned her bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Bryan College and her juris doctorate from John Marshall Law School.