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Norma V. Cantu
American lawyer
Norma V. Cantú (born November 2, 1954) is an American civil rightslawyer and educator. From 2021 to 2023, she served as chair of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, the first Latina to hold the position.
She previously served as a professor of law and education at the University of Texas at Austin.
Norma cantu biography
She served as the Assistant Secretary of Education for the Office for Civil Rights under President Bill Clinton and as regional counsel for the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.[2]
Early life
Cantú was born in 1954 in Brownsville, Texas, a third generation Mexican-American.
She was the eldest of six children. She graduated from Brownsville High School (now Homer Hanna High School) in 1971, one of only 750 students who graduated out of a class of 2,000. She received her B.A., graduating summa cum laude, from the University of Texas–Pan American in 1973 at the age of 19.
Cantú started her career as an Englis