Devoted To Your Legal Needs
Maria Dinorah Diaz
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Languages
- English
- Spanish
Practice Areas
- Divorce/Family Law
- Personal Injury Law
- Criminal Law
Education
- Reynaldo Garza Law School, Edinburg, Texas
- Juris Doctor - 1989
- Women’s Campaign School at Yale University
- University of Texas at Austin
- B.A., Bachelor of Arts - 1985
- University of Houston International Law Studies, Mexico City, Mexico
- Catholic University, Valencia, Spain
- El Technológico De Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Bar Admissions
- Supreme Court of Texas, 1991
- U.S. District Court Western District of Texas, 2002
Professional Associations
- Mexican American Bar Association, Former Member
- San Antonio Progressive Voters League, Former President
- Texas Trial Lawyers Association, Former Member
- Texas Young Lawyers Association, Former Member
- Criminal Defense Lawyers Association
- Dellview area neighborhood association, Former Board Member and Former Secretary
- National Hispanic Bar Association
Pro-Bono Activities
- Small, Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprise (SMWBE) of Bexar County Texas. Advisory Committee board member appointed by Commissioner Tommy Calvert. Present Board Member.
- Participation as a SWMBE board member is an advisory commission and make recommendations to the Commissioners Court on various issues and policies concerning and impacting the SMWBE Program and its activity.
- Property donor to Victory Outreach
- “Can We Talk”, fund-raising donated trip (coalition of women’s organizations) mid 90’s ● Mentor Mentee program of the Mexican American Bar Association with Tafolla Middle School (1991-1992)
- Hugh O’Brien Youth Leadership Program (1994)
- Provided funding for grassroots and neighborhood groups to re-open Early Voting Locations in the 1998 Primary for equal voting access to citizens
- East side Rapid Response Team Member
- “Get Out the Vote” effort / Early Voting effort
- Helped organize the “Higher Education Issue” to provide for greater higher education in South Texas by coordinating and working with MALDEF with Potential Plaintiffs in Hidalgo and Cameron Counties (1987)
- Pro-bono work