Joanna Kloet is currently serving as the American Immigration Council’s Morgan Lewis Military Immigration Attorney Fellow, where she focuses on advocating for U.S. military service members and their families in immigration matters. This includes assisting with the filing of naturalization applications for Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest (MAVNI) service members and veterans, who enlisted in the U.S. military because they had vital language or medical skills. She also represents other service members, veterans, and their families with other immigration matters, as well as providing support to immigration-related litigation efforts, including efforts to repatriate deported combat veterans.

After graduating law school, Joanna was selected through the Department of Justice Honors Program to serve as an Attorney Advisor for the Executive Office for Immigration Review in the Tenth Circuit. She moved to private practice as an associate attorney with the Michigan law firm of Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge, and later as a Supervising Attorney in the Immigration Law Clinic at Michigan State University College of Law. From 2017 to 2023, Joanna was an Assistant Federal Public Defender in the Western District of Michigan, where she focused much of her work on non-citizens facing federal charges including immigration-related offenses.

Joanna completed her undergraduate work at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and obtained her law degree from Michigan State University, where she graduated summa cum laude as a King Scholar. She is admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Western District of Michigan, and she is licensed to practice in Michigan and Colorado.