Ferzana Hashmi is an attorney licensed to practice
      law by the Supreme Court of the state of Iowa.  Attorney Hashmi is also admitted to
      federal practice in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa in the
      8th Circuit.  She is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
      Attorney Hashmi was elected to a chapter officer position and currently serves as the
      Iowa-Nebraska Chapter Secretary.  Attorney Hashmi is an active member in good standing
      of the Iowa Bar Association and the Polk County Bar Association.

      Attorney Hashmi attended the prestigious University  of Virginia School of
      Law where she completed a Juris Doctor in 2004.  While attending
      law school, Attorney Hashmi simultaneously completed a Masters in Business Administration
      at the Darden Graduate School of Business, a leading business school in the United States.

      During Attorney Hashmi's graduate studies in law school and business
      school, she completed a number of summer
      positions and clerkships at a variety of organizations to hone her legal research
      and writing skills while working with a variety of clients and areas of law.  She
      worked in the Legal Department of General Electric Financial Assurances in
      Lynchburg, VA in 2000, spending a lot of her time researching internet law issues
      across fifty states and biometrics as part of a web-based product launch.  She also
      clerked in the Enforcement Division of the New York Stock Exchange in New York city
      in 2001 where attorney Hashmi worked on a number of regulations dealing with the
      sale of securities. Attorney Hashmi summered at the boutique banking law firm of
      Comey & Rigby in Washington D.C. during the summer of 2002 on a large-scale
      international banking matter that necessitated the use of English and French and
      familiarity with the legal systems in the United States and France. Finally, she was
      an MBA consultant advising two start-up bio-tech businesses, Home Guardian and
      Hypogen, which had both competed in Darden’s challenging Business
      Plan/Concept Competition earning their seats in the Darden Progressive Incubator
      in Charlottesville, VA in 2003.

      In 1997, Attorney Hashmi graduated from the University of Virginia College of Arts
      and Sciences as an undergraduate, majoring in Foreign Affairs and minoring in South
      Asian Studies.  She also completed undergraduate coursework in French, Hindi and Urdu.