Gordon Quan Papers

Gordon J. Quan is a nationally recognized immigration lawyer and former Houston City Council member. In 1999, Mr. Quan was elected the first Asian-American to serve as an “at large” member of the Houston City Council. In 2002, he was selected by the Mayor and Council of Houston to serve as Mayor Pro Tem. He was instrumental in the City of Houston’s creation of an Office for Immigration and Refugee Affairs.

Mr. Quan is certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Immigration and Nationality Law and has three decades of experience successfully arguing cases before the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the Board of Immigration Appeals, the Board of Labor Certification Appeals and in federal courts. He also has served as President of the Asian Pacific American Municipal Officials of the National League of Cities.

He has served as chair of the Texas Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and as a member of the national board of governors of that group. He was a founding member of the Texas State Bar Association’s Immigration Section and chaired the section in 2011. Mr. Quan serves on the board of trustees for the South Texas College of Law and the Advisory Board of the University of Houston Immigration Law Clinic. And he is a founding member of the Asian American Bar Association of Houston. Mr. Quan has been active fostering legal groups to promote the specialty of immigration law, and he has regularly shared his expertise widely, hosting a weekly radio program on immigration law in which he answers callers’ questions.

Before opening the Quan Law Group, Mr. Quan co-founded Foster Quan LLP in 2009. He had previously founded Quan, Burdette and Perez.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas, a Master in Education from the University of Houston, and his law degree from the South Texas College of Law.