diff --git a/commands/issue.go b/commands/issue.go
index e3f9faeb..6e662b83 100644
--- a/commands/issue.go
+++ b/commands/issue.go
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ var (
 `,
 	}
 
+	flagIssueAssignee,
 	flagIssueMessage,
 	flagIssueFile string
 
@@ -44,6 +45,8 @@ func init() {
 	cmdCreateIssue.Flag.StringVarP(&flagIssueFile, "file", "f", "", "FILE")
 	cmdCreateIssue.Flag.VarP(&flagIssueLabels, "label", "l", "LABEL")
 
+	cmdIssue.Flag.StringVarP(&flagIssueAssignee, "assignee", "a", "", "ASSIGNEE")
+
 	cmdIssue.Use(cmdCreateIssue)
 	CmdRunner.Use(cmdIssue)
 }
@@ -66,8 +69,11 @@ func issue(cmd *Command, args *Args) {
 				} else {
 					url = issue.HTMLURL
 				}
-				// "nobody" should have more than 1 million github issues
-				ui.Printf("% 7d] %s ( %s )\n", issue.Number, issue.Title, url)
+
+				if flagIssueAssignee == "" || issue.Assignee.Login == flagIssueAssignee {
+					// "nobody" should have more than 1 million github issues
+					ui.Printf("% 7d] %s ( %s )\n", issue.Number, issue.Title, url)
+				}
 			}
 		}
 	})
diff --git a/features/issue.feature b/features/issue.feature
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e76a8a2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/features/issue.feature
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+Feature: hub issue
+  Background:
+    Given I am in "git://github.com/github/hub.git" git repo
+    And I am "cornwe19" on github.com with OAuth token "OTOKEN"
+
+  Scenario: Fetch issues
+    Given the remote issues of "github/hub" are:
+    """
+    [
+      { :number => 102,
+        :title => "First issue",
+        :html_url => "https://github.com/github/hub/issues/102",
+        :assignee => {
+          :login => "octokit"
+        }
+      },
+      { :number => 103,
+        :title => "Second issue",
+        :html_url => "https://github.com/github/hub/issues/103",
+        :assignee => {
+          :login => "cornwe19"
+        }
+      }
+    ]
+    """
+    When I run `hub issue -a cornwe19`
+    Then the output should contain exactly:
+      """
+          103] Second issue ( https://github.com/github/hub/issues/103 )\n
+      """
+    And the exit status should be 0
diff --git a/features/steps.rb b/features/steps.rb
index a096ecbd..2ca1fe1d 100644
--- a/features/steps.rb
+++ b/features/steps.rb
@@ -82,6 +82,15 @@ Given(/^there is a commit named "([^"]+)"$/) do |name|
   run_silent %(git reset --quiet --hard HEAD^)
 end
 
+Given(/^the remote issues of "(.*?)" are:$/) do |proj, json_value|
+  status_endpoint = <<-EOS
+    get('/repos/#{proj}/issues') {
+      json(#{json_value})
+    }
+    EOS
+  step %{the GitHub API server:}, status_endpoint
+end
+
 When(/^I make (a|\d+) commits?(?: with message "([^"]+)")?$/) do |num, msg|
   num = num == 'a' ? 1 : num.to_i
   num.times { empty_commit(msg) }