Pablo Javier Almaguér is a former chair of the State Bar of Texas

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 Board of Directors

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Almaguer was the first legal aid

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 lawyer

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 to serve on the State Bar of Texas Board of Directors and the first attorney from Hidalgo County

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 to be elected to the position of chair. Almaguer is a graduate of the University of Texas-Pan American and Chicago-Kent College of Law

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 and was previously branch manager

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 of the Edinburg branch of Texas RioGrande Legal Aid; he is currently the President of the Board of Directors for the Texas Civil Rights

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