Thomas J. Rosser
Mayo Mallette PLLC
Post Office Box 1432
2094 Old Taylor Road, Suite 250
Oxford, MS 38655

trosser@mayomallette.com
TEL: 662.234.0350 or 0360
FAX: 662.236.0035
Position   |  Areas of Practice   |   Bar Admissions   |   Education   |  Affiliations

     Tommy Rosser is of counsel and heads the Firm's affiliated Immigration Group.
A member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association since 1996, Mr. Rosser's practice emphasizes employment-based immigration law and handles labor certifications, national interest waivers, H's, E's, F's, J's, L's, P's, O's, TN's, adjustments of status, EAD'S, affidavits of support, advance parole, consular processing and naturalization applications on a regular basis. Family-based cases have also been a consistent portion of his practice.

     For the better part of two decades, he lived and worked in Mexico as the resident sales and marketing representative for several transnational companies, including Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation, Ladish & Company, Wisconsin Centrifugal Company, Babcock & Wilcox, Inc., and as the exclusive distributor in Mexico for Sara Lee Corporation's Bakery Division. He has also served as a member of the board of directors, construction services manager, and general sales manager for the development company that created and built the Santa Anita Golf and Country Club condominium community in Guadalajara, Mexico, beginning in 1973. His direct experience includes transactional work with Mexico, Guatemala, Venezuela, Peru, and Ecuador, as well as significant dealings with suppliers and trading companies from Japan, Taiwan, Germany, Great Britain, Italy and Spain.

     Mr. Rosser holds a Masters Degree in International Business and Economics from the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin in addition to his Juris Doctorate from the University of Mississippi. He has been a Fulbright Foreign Exchange Scholar at the National University of Mexico, a Lewis-Farmington Fellow at Yale University in the field of romance languages and has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey, in the areas of finance and audit, since 1986. Mr. Rosser holds both United States and Mexican citizenship, is fluent in Spanish, and is honorably discharged from the United States Army.

     He is married to the former Lynda Caroline Austin of Lake Cormorant, Mississippi.


Current Employment Position:

Of Counsel

Areas Of Practice:

- Immigration, Business & Family-Based

Bar Admissions:

- Mississippi, 1996
- Tennessee, 2005
- U.S. District Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern, Western and Middle Districts
       of Tennessee
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
- U.S. Court of International Trade
- U.S. Supreme Court

Education:

- University of Mississippi School of Law, J.D., 1995
          American Jurisprudence Award, Alternative Dispute Resolution

- University of Texas at Austin
  Institute of Latin American Studies, M.A., 1972, cum laude

- The College of Wooster, B.A., 1969, cum laude

Professional Associations and Memberships:

- Mississippi Bar Association
- Tennessee Bar Association
- American Immigration Lawyers Association
- Board of Trustees, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1986-present
- Listed in Mid-South Super Lawyers, 2006 (Immigration)
- Listed in the International Who's Who of Corporate Immigration Lawyers,
  2011 (London, UK)
- Listed in the International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, 2012
  (London, UK)

 


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