ALEXANDRIA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Robert B. Jobe has been selected to receive the prestigious 2016 American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the Ninth Circuit. The award will be presented in July at the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference at the Big Sky Resort in Big Sky, Montana, by the Honorable Mary M. Schroeder.

Jobe is in private practice in San Francisco, where since 1990 he has specialized in immigration law. Widely recognized as one of the nation’s finest immigration litigators, Jobe and his associates have represented clients in more than 60 precedential cases, helping to shape current immigration law. He has litigated at all levels of the federal court system, including the Supreme Court of the United States, and testified before the U.S. House of Representatives on the need to enact legislation to implement the United Nations Convention Against Torture.

Jobe has served as counsel in several of the most significant immigration cases of the past decade. Specifically, he has influenced such issues as asylum law, suspension of deportation, visa processing, and criminal aliens. He has been awarded the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s Jack Wasserman Award for Excellence in Immigration Litigation, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center’s Phillip Burton Award for Outstanding Immigration Lawyering, and the National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom’s Constitutional Rights Award for Outstanding Legal Service Against the Use of Secret Evidence.

He has been named a Northern California Super Lawyer by San Francisco magazine every year since 2005. He is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the National Lawyers Guild. Jobe holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Michigan, and earned his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.

The American Inns of Court, headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, fosters excellence in professionalism, ethics, civility, and legal skills. The organization’s membership includes more than 30,000 federal, state, and local judges; lawyers; law professors; and law students in more than 360 chapters nationwide and more than 100,000 alumni members. More information is available at www.innsofcourt.org.