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Rochelle Mercedes Garza (born 1984/1985) [1] is an American attorney from Brownsville, Texas currently serving as one of the five Commissioners on the United States Commission on Civil Rights. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She is a civil rights attorney who practices family law , criminal defense , Immigration law , constitutional law and is the president of the ...
Colmenero is a Hispanic-American. [1] She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. [2] She earned a J.D. from the Notre Dame Law School. [2]Colmenero worked in the office of the Texas Attorney General for almost ten years where she held a number of positions including chief of the general litigation division and deputy chief of the special litigation division. [2]
The attorneys general of the Republic of Texas and the first four attorneys general under the 1845 state constitution were appointed by the governor. The office was made elective in 1850 by constitutional amendment. The attorney general is elected to a four-year term. In 2013, former Attorney General Greg Abbott announced he would not seek ...
As Texas Attorney General, I will be a strong defender of all Texans, holding wrongdoers accountable while promoting justice for everyone – not just the privileged few. Meanwhile, Ken Paxton ...
In a letter to Assistant U.S. Attorney General for Civil Rights Kristen Clarke, first obtained by CBS News, Palomares and LULAC CEO Juan Proaño described the case of an 87-year-old great ...
The Texas attorney general who survived a historic impeachment trial last year made a Super Tuesday primary a bitter Republican-on-Republican brawl, targeting the House speaker and dozens of other ...
This is a list of minority attorneys general in the United States. In the United States, an ethnic minority is anyone who has at least one parent who is not of non-Hispanic white descent (such as African Americans , Asian Americans , Pacific Islands Americans , Hispanic and Latino Americans , or Native Americans ).
Angela Suzanne Paxton (née Allen; born February 14, 1963) [1] is an American politician from the state of Texas. A member of the Republican Party, she has represented District 8 in the Texas Senate since 2019. Her political career has been closely tied to her husband, Ken Paxton, the current Attorney General of Texas. [1]