Myava Escamilla

Myava Refugia Escamilla is an American family law, bankruptcy, immigration, and domestic violence-personal injury lawyer in Orange County California.
Born and raised in Boothbay Harbor, Maine Escamilla is the daughter of a Mexican-American Father and an Irish-American Mother. She was raised by her grandmother, Hazel Kelley, after the brutal homicide of her mother, Mary Kelley, in 1986. After her Mother's case became cold and went unsolved for nearly 24 years, Escamilla campaigned for over two decades to solve the homicide. The murder was solved by the Portland Police Department resulting in an arrest on July 11, 2008, thus solving one of the oldest homicides in the history of Maine.
Escamilla was a top student at Boothbay Region High School and graduated from Smith College in 1995. In law school at San Joaquin College of Law she assisted two practitioners in making caselaw and was active in minority student organizations. Post law school, she has worked as an advocate in the specialized field of family law domestic violence.

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