Pamela Peynado-Stewart

Attorney Pamela Peynado Stewart is a Partner at Lee & Peynado Immigration Law Group in Alpharetta, Georgia.  At the age of 29, Pamela became the youngest and only female partner in the history of the firm. Pamela handles a variety of immigration issues with a focus on deportation, removal and family based immigration cases. Her life experience as an immigrant and her passion to help others made working in the field of immigration law the perfect fit. She has successfully represented fortune 500 companies, hospitals, cities, banks, churches and aggressively defended countless adults and children in deportation and removal proceedings all over the United States

Pamela is a symbol that hard work pays off as she now owns the firm where she was previously employed as a receptionist. Most recently Pamela was selected as a 2017, 2018 and 2019 and 2020 Rising Star for the State of Georgia by the Super Lawyer and was featured on CNN’s Great Big Story documentary “The Defenders”. She was awarded the 2019 One To Watch Award by the State Bar of Georgia and was also named one of the most powerful women in law by the Latino Leaders Magazine. Leadership positions include Georgia Hispanic Bar Association, the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys, Multi Bar Leadership Council, Latin American Association, the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the Harvard Debate Council Diversity Project. She also served on Mayor Keisha Lance Bottom’s immigrant detention advisory council.

When she is not at the office, Pamela finds great joy mentoring young students and serving as an assistant High School mock trial coach.