Hispanic National Bar Association


The Hispanic National Bar Association is a 501 organization representing Hispanics in the legal profession, including attorneys, judges, law professors, legal assistant and paralegals, and law students in the United States and its territories.

History

The organization was founded in California on March 20, 1972, as La Raza National Lawyers Association; its first president was Mario G. Obledo. The organization's name was changed to Hispanic National Bar Association and reincorporated in the District of Columbia in 1984.

Mission

The Hispanic National Bar Association is a not-for-profit, nonpartisan, national membership organization that represents the interests of Hispanic legal professionals in the United States and its territories.
The HNBA is much more than a bar organization, as our scope and reach goes beyond the legal profession and into the communities in which we live and work.
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Educational Activities

Through our signature events, the HNBA Annual Convention and the Corporate Counsel Conference, we offer cutting-edge continuing legal education sessions, which qualify for CLE credits in all U.S. jurisdictions. Our CLE sessions feature practitioners and leading experts from across the country, addressing legal trends on a wide range of topics. As a nationwide approved provider of minimum/mandatory continuing legal education, the HNBA offers continuing legal education training to between 1,200 and 1,600 minority legal professionals each year. The HNBA also has a number of educational pipeline initiatives that support the training and educational advancement of young Latinx individuals such as: the Uvaldo Herrera National Moot Court Competition, the HNBA Intellectual Property Law Institute, Law School Sin Límites, and the Youth Symposium.

List of past presidents

Past presidents of the HNBA are as follows: