Structure
The current National President and Chief Executive Officer is Peter M. Reyes, Jr., a senior intellectual property lawyer at Cargill, Incorporated. The Immediate Past National President Benny Agosto Jr., a partner with Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Sorrels, Agosto & Friend of Houston, Texas, who was born in New York City and raised in Puerto Rico. Previous Past National Presidents have included Diane Sen of New York, New York, Jimmie V. Reyna of Washington, D.C., Roman Hernandez, Mari Carmen Aponte of Washington, D.C., and Ramona Emilia Romero of Delaware and Pennsylvania. Antonio Arocho is presently serving as Interim Executive Director/Chief Operating Officer. Previous Executive Directors/Chief Operating Officers have included Antonio Arocho (2012,2006-8), Esq., Zuraya Tapia-Alfaro, Esq. and Carmen Feliciano, Esq.
The association represents the interests of the more than 100,000 Hispanic attorneys, judges, law professors, law students and paralegals in the United States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. National officers are elected by the membership at large, and Regional Presidents are elected by their regional members. Individual attorneys may join, and local Hispanic bar associations may become affiliated with the HNBA. The HNBA collaborates with the local Hispanic bars in over 100 cities in the United States, as well as with other specialty bars and the American Bar Association.
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