Pablo Javier Almaguér (born May 7, 1971) is an American

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from

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. He is a former

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of the

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Biography

Almaguer was the first

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to serve on the State Bar of Texas Board of Directors, and the first attorney from Hidalgo County to be elected to the position of chair. Almaguer is a graduate of the

University of Texas–Pan American The University of Texas–Pan American (UTPA) was a public university in Edinburg, Texas. Founded in 1927, it was a component institution of the University of Texas System. The university served the Rio Grande Valley (Texas), Rio Grande Valley a ...

, and did his graduate work at

Chicago-Kent College of Law The Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of the Illinois Institute of Technology, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. It is the second oldest law school in the state of Illinois (after Northwestern Law). Chicago-Kent wa ...

. He was previously

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of the Edinburg branch of

Texas RioGrande Legal Aid Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, formerly Texas Rural Legal Aid (TRLA), is a nonprofit agency that specializes in providing free civil legal services to the poor in a 68-county service area. It also operates a migrant farmworker legal assistance prog ...

; he is a former president of the board of directors for the Texas Civil Rights Project.

Miscellaneous

Texas Center for Legal Ethics - About Pablo Almaguer

Pablo J. Almaguer's Linkedin Page

The Pablo J. Almaguer Public Interest Law Fellowship

References

1971 births Living people American lawyers Chicago-Kent College of Law alumni University of Texas Rio Grande Valley alumni {{US-law-bio-stub