2008-2009 OFFICERS

OFFICER	NAME	CLASS OF
President	Victoria Neave	2009
Vice President	Juan Vargas	2010
Vice President for Publicity	Angie Mendoza Guinn	2009
Vice President for Youth	Eduardo Martinez	2009
Secretary	Liliana Castillo	2010
Treasurer	Alma Reyes	2009
Parliamentarian	Mark Scott	2009
Historian	Daney De La O	2009
Sergeant at Arms	Melissa Bazan	2009
Fundraising	-open-	--

Texas Supreme Court Candidate, Justice Linda Yanez

LULAC Law students welcome Texas Supreme Court Candidate, Justice Linda Yanez on THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2008 AT 12:00 P.M, tmsl Room tba.

Justice Yanez is currently serving on the 13th Court of appeals and is the first Latina to be appointed to an appellate court in the history of the state of Texas. She received her LLM from the University of Virginia Law School and her Bachelors of Arts from the University of Texas-Pan American. Most importantly she is a graduate of TMSL! Justice Yanez was a former Harvard Law School clinical instructor and has been a guest lecturer at the Law School at the University of Valencia in Valencia, Spain.

She served on and chaired numerous committees and boards, for the State Bar Associations in Texas, Illinois and Massachusetts and nationally the American Bar Association. Justice Yanez served as consulting attorney to the Mexican Consul Generals in Brownsville, Texas and Boston, Massachusetts and on the Legal Advisory Committee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. She served as Regional Counsel to the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund. We invite everyone to join us in welcoming this outstanding TMSL graduate.

http://www.lindayanez.com/home/

Gracias!

TMSL LULAC Law Students

2008-2009 Officers

Congratulations to the newly elected 2008-2009 officers!

President, Victoria Neave (2L)

Vice President, Juan Vargas (1L)

Vice President of Publicity, Angie Mendoza Guinn (2L)

Vice President for Fundraising, Marco DeLuna (3L)

Vice President for Youth, Eduardo Martinez (2L)

Secretary, Liliana Castillo (1L)

Treasurer, Alma Reyes (2L)

Parliamentarian, Mark Scott (2L)

Historian, Daney De La O (2L)

Sergeant at Arms, Melissa Bazan (2L)

Alumni Project Chair, Daney De La O (2L)

HUNGER FOR HUMANITY

Beginning Monday, October 8, 2007 through Friday, October 12, 2007, members of the LULAC Law Students Chapter will exercise our rights to freedom of speech and assembly by conducting a peaceful demonstration in the form of an on-campus hunger fast for five days to bring awareness to immigrant issues. As symbolic speech, we will set up tents for overnight stay next to the law school.

Project Purpose: We will educate the community about immigration issues and human rights. We will distribute literature and hope to spread a message of tolerance and respect for humanity. This project will occur during Latino Heritage Month as we honor the contributions of Latinos to society.

LULAC MENTOR PROGRAM @ Jack Yates High School

• WHERE TO MEET: We will meet in the lobby of TMSL at 2:30 p.m. and walk across the street to Jack Yates High School. For those of you with class until 2:50 p.m., we will have a second group of law students meet in the TMSL lobby by 2:55 p.m.and walk to Jack Yates immediately thereafter.


• DATES: October 3, 2007; October 17, 2007; October 31, 2007; November 14, 2007
• WHEN: 2:45 - 3:45, every other Wednesday
• WHERE: Jack Yates High School Cafeteria


• ABOUT PROGRAM: We will EMPOWER, EDUCATE, TUTOR, MENTOR, & INSPIRE 100 Latino students at Jack Yates High School. Together, we can instill some amazing values into these malleable teens who may lack direction, guidance, motivation, and role models. If we combine our strengths and harness the student’s enthusiasm, we can mold them into contributing members of society and assets to our country. Our goal is to ensure that these students do not fall through the cracks and to ensure that they attend college.


• TO BE A MENTOR: Please email LULACLawStudents@yahoo.com with your name, phone, email, year and feel free to tell us in what other capacities you could assist us. We need TMSL role models to help us as we have the ability to instill hope and leadership skills in the next generation.

In addition, the Jack Yates students from our program last year and their teachers organized and have invited us to attend a Latino Heritage Month Celebration on Monday October 1, 2007 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the Yates Cafeteria. They will have student presentations, salsa lessons, tres leches cake, and more!