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REPRESENTATIVE ALONZO Guest Speaker At Graduation

REPRESENTATIVE ROBERTO R. ALONZO

Guest Speaker at CCISD Graduation

Mr. Raymundo Villarreal, Jr., Superintendent of Schools, along with Mrs. Patricia Clarkson, Crystal City High School Principal, announce the commencement exercises to be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 5, 2009, at the Javelina Stadium.  In the event of inclement weather, the exercises will be moved to the Crystal City High School Commence Area. 

            Texas State Representative Roberto R. Alonzo, a native of Crystal City, and who is currently serving his fifth term as Texas State Representative, will address the Class of 2009.  He graduated from Crystal City High School in 1975.  Representative Alonzo is married to the former Sylvana Avila, also of Crystal City, and is the father of three children, Roberto Jr., Maria Xiomara, and Jose Maria Emeterio.

            Representative Alonzo pursued an undergraduate degree at UT-Austin on an academic scholarship graduating with a B.A. degree in 1980.  From there, he continued his law studies at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University in Houston where he obtained his Doctor of Jurisprudence in 1984.  Representative Alonzo is currently a self-practitioner and small business owner in Dallas where he specializes in criminal law.

            In addition to his law practice, he is actively involved in a number of community affairs in the Dallas metroplex area.  A former Board Member of both the Greater Dallas Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Authority (DART), he has also served as an active Board Member of Hispanic PAC/USA in Washington, D.C. and the Mexican American Bar Association.  Representative Alonzo is a former Assistant Texas Attorney General, Legislative Aide in the Texas Senate, state employee with the Texas Department of Human Resources, paralegal for both the Texas Rural Legal Aid and the Texas Rural Legal Aid and the Oficina de la Gente Legal Aid Clinic, which provides free pro bono legal services to low-income families.  Representative Alonzo has been instrumental in passing key pieces of legislation that affects the lives of Texans.  In January 2008, Representative Alonzo was honored by the Texas Association of Mexican American Chamber of Commerce with their “2008 Champion of Higher Education Award,” for his exemplary advocacy work on behalf of higher education issues in Texas, and in February 2008, he was honored with the TACHE Meritorious Service Award presented by the Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education.