Los Angeles resident to become first Latino to head State Bar of California

By Brenda Gazzar, sbsun.com

Luis J. Rodriguez will never forget as a boy seeing the El Paso police officer make fun of his father’s broken English while they were visiting the U.S. from Mexico. Or how authorities in Southland cities would stop him and his friends, tell them to sit on a curb and search their cars for a minor traffic violation — or simply to check their license and registration.

Now, the 46-year-old married father of two girls is the first Latino and the first active public defender elected to be president of the State Bar of California, which regulates more than 237,000 attorneys in the state. Rodriguez will be sworn in as the 89th president at the State Bar’s annual meeting in October in San Jose.

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