Personal Injury, Family Law, Wills, DWI and Criminal Law

Education

• Graduate of University of Houston Law School, Doctor of Jurisprudence
• Graduate of Baylor University, Bachelor of Arts
• Graduate of Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, Texas, Associate of Arts
• Graduate of Calvert, Texas public schools
  

Community

• State LULAC Chairman of the Year 1971-72
• State and National LULAC Man of the Year, 1970
• Member, Who's Who in America
• President, Instituto de Cultura Hispanica, 2002
• Former State Representative, first hispanic elected from Nueces County, 1965
• Former national President of LULAC
• Former National Executive Director of LULAC
• Former Chairman National Board LULAC Education Service Centter
• Chariman of Corpus Christi Chamber of Commerce, 1990-91
• Former member of the Texas Constitutional Revision Committee
• Appointed by Gov. Dolph Briscoe to the Coordination Board for Texas Colleges and Universities

Awards

• Award of Merit from the National Hispanic University of California
• Outstanding Citizen's Award from the United Married Couples Club
• Gold Medal Recipient from José Lopez Portillo, President of Mexico for his work on behalf of the hispanic community in the US and the Mexican nationals residing in the US
• Golden Eagle Award by Nosotros, a hispanic actors group organized by Ricardo Montalban, for his work on behalf of hispanics in the entertainment industry
• Nueces County Bar Association Cecil Burney Humanitarian Award, 1986

Miscellaneous

• Frequent lecturer at college and university campuses throughout the United States
• Married, four children, five grand-children
• Partner, Bonilla Plaza Business Complex (Bonilla Plaza)