Admitted
1959, Arizona; 1962, U.S. Court of Military Appeals; 1965, U.S. District Court, District of Arizona; 1967, U.S. Supreme Court; 1973, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Law School
University of Arizona, LL.B., 1959
Law School Graduation Year
1959
College
University of Arizona, B.S., 1956; U.S. State Department Foreign Service Institute Language Training
Memberships
State Bar of Arizona (Chairman, International Law Section, 1974-1976).
Biographical
Selected as one of the 100 outstanding minority or women lawyers in the history of the Arizona legal profession. Recipient: Profiles of Success Hispanic Leadership Hall of Fame Award for his lifetime work in Civil Rights, Phoenix based Valle del Sol, Inc., 2002; Maclovio Barraza Award for Leadership, National Council of La Raza, 2003; Arizona Alumni Association Public Service Award, University of Arizona; Hispanic Alumni Award, University of Arizona. Author: Country Law Study for Spain/A Survey of the Substantive and Procedural Criminal Law of Spain (A Comparative Study), 77 pages, 1964, Wiesbaden, Germany, published by HQ USAF in Europe - Office of the Judge Advocate (Updated Study in 1968 on aspect of Cruel and Unusual Punishment - Eighth Amendment, at request of USAF in Washington, D.C.); General Laws Relating to the Field of Domestic Relations & Divorce Law in Mexico, Arizona State Bar Journal, published June 1967. Co-Author: Application for Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Visa, CLE Seminar, December 1978, State Bar of Arizona, 1978; Border Industrialization Article prepared as part of transcript for Federal Bar Association, U.S. - Mexico Trade Law Conference, Dallas, TX 1980; Doing Business in Mexico: A Private Practitioner's Point of View, article published by the College of Law, University of Arizona, Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 1, Number 1, pp. 32-34; Border Industries article 28 pages, for Federal Bar Association publication, U.S.-Mexico Trade and Investment Law Conference, September 1982, Marriott Crystal Gateway, Arlington, VA. Update of this article appeared in a later edition of the Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law; The 'Flip' Side of Fast Track, also appearing as Boost for Maintaining Civil Cases on Fast Track, p. 4, Maricopa Lawyer, December 1985, State Bar of Arizona, Bar Briefs, January 1986, Vol. 24, No. I, p.1. Law Specialist Speaker and workshop presenter, Free Access to Information and the Judiciary, Lima and Chiclayo, Peru, U.S
Military
U.S. Air Force, Brig. Gen., 1959-1991