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Cuellar is “a renowned scholar who has served two presidents and made significant contributions to both political science and law,” Brown said. “His vast knowledge and even temperament will – without question – add further luster to our highest court.”
Cuellar was born in Matamoros, Mexico.
Governor Jerry Brown has nominated Stanford law professor Mariano-Florentino Cuellar to fill the most recent vacancy on the California Supreme Court created by the impending retirement of Justice Marvin Baxter.
Cuellar is “a renowned scholar who has served two presidents and made significant contributions to both political science and law,” Brown said. “His vast knowledge and even temperament will – without question – add further luster to our highest court.”Cuellar was born in Matamoros, Mexico.
As a child he crossed the border each day to attend Catholic school in Brownsville, Texas, until he and his family relocated to California’s Imperial Valley when he was 14.
After earning a bachelor’s degree from Harvard in 3 years (magna cum laude, 1993), he received a Master’s degree in political science from Stanford in 1996, followed by a law degree from Yale in 1997, and his Ph.D. in political science from Stanford in 2000. He then served as law clerk to Chief Judge Mary M. Schroeder of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Since the culmination of his clerkship in 2001, Cuellar has been a professor at Stanford. He is currently the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, as well as the Director of Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, where he is also a Senior Fellow. According to his faculty biography, his work at Stanford involves “the intersection of law, public policy, and political science.”
Since the culmination of his clerkship in 2001, Cuellar has been a professor at Stanford. He is currently the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, as well as the Director of Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, where he is also a Senior Fellow. According to his faculty biography, his work at Stanford involves “the intersection of law, public policy, and political science.”
His courses deal with issues of administrative law, regulation and bureaucracy, executive power, and national security.
Professor Cuellar’s tenure at Stanford has included governmental, as well as academic, endeavors. In fact, even before he assumed his faculty position at Stanford, he interrupted his Ph.D. program to serve as Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary (Enforcement) of the Treasury from 1997 to 1999, focusing on financial crime enforcement, terrorism financing countermeasures, immigration, and border security.
In 2008 and 2009, he served as Co-Chair of the Immigration Policy Working Group for the Obama-Biden Transition Project, where he worked to formulate policies on immigration, borders, and refugees.
In 2009 and 2010, he served as Special Assistant to the President for Justice and Regulatory Policy, leading the White House Domestic Policy Council’s work on criminal justice and drug policy; civil rights and liberties; immigration, borders, and refugees; public health and safety; rural development and agriculture policy; and regulatory reform.
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20 comments:
What a shame. Think how far he could have gone if he had only stayed in Brownsville....
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is." Dan Quayle
Take that one and swallow it Mr. Barrera.
Not all Mexicans come to the United States to be on Welfare.
Unfortunately, most Hispanics or other Americans don't achieve this kind of academic or professional success without a family that respects education. Most Hispanics and Americans these days are satisfied with their entitlements and treat education as the care care part of their entitlements. Congratulations to this gentleman and his family. Let's hope there are others like him among us who will strive to move above just a life of entitlements.
Did he ever get his papers? They would not ask about such technical things in California. It would be a hoot if he was a mojado.
what has bisd done for your kids?
This a prime example of why there should open borders. Let talent go where it flourishes. Last I checked they don't check for papers going from Arizona to California. Americans are afraid of competition, especially in Silicon Valley. The modern idea of nationalism is counter-intuitive to all that capitalism holds dear. The state has outlived its reason for existence. Long live the New World Order.
July 30, 2014 at 11:57 AM
Anonymous said...
If he is a "mojado" it is NOT our concern because he is in California and not Texas. If he is a "mojado" he is a successful "mojado" which is more than a lot of "dry" Americans that live off the Welfare rolls and of other American tax payers and never find a job (or look for one) because expect everything given to them on a silver platter just because WE ARE AMERICANS. The point of the story is his success (Not being a citizen by birth) while others that have priviledge of being born in the U.S.A. never amount to anything and expect the government to give them everything.
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"Most Hispanics and Americans these days are satisfied with their entitlements and treat education as the care...."
WTF are you talking about. Who made you the authority to say MOST?
Do you have any proof of what you are spewing about? This is not FOX news.
Just because YOU say it doesn't make it true.
Mojado or not, he smarter than you, with your fifth grade education! Typical Brownsville mexicans, can't stand to see another person succeed! Can you blame this guy for leaving the shit hole that brownsville is?
Harvard? LOL. Two words - AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. $100 says the fat-necked, curly eared wetback can hardly speak properly let alone interpret legislation. Amusing to be sure. He ought to work in the Obamito White House.
Racist dumb-ass....."speak properly"....sad thing is you're probably mexican yourself.
This why I left Brownsville (Crabbucketville).
Typical Brownsville.
What have you accomplished? $100 YOUR MOTHER is on welfare.
Que asi fueran el resto de la bola de pinches mexicanos que vienen nomas pa pedir welfare y medicaid?
Para su informacion pinches POCHOS, aqui en Brownsville, avemos MOJADOS que en unos cuanto años, hemos echo mas de lo que ustedes van a aser en toda su pinche welferera vida
I love to watch Meskins fight.
Nice write up Juan. California is not afraid of competition that is why the Silicon Valley thrives with start ups and visionaries who do not let self doubt stop them from creating and advancing locally or globally.
California embraces diversity unlike this region, especially Brownsville, where unless you speak Spanish no one will hire you, which is why this region stays stagnate and stale.
People here love to hate each other no matter how a person has managed to succeed there is always a peanut gallery of arm-chair negativity.
Another reason this town does not succeed at anything other than "Kid's Fish & Biggest Loser" the only two positive large scale events in this town that have nothing to do with culture.
Culture is a mixed blessing in this region as well, because we love our culture, but we force feed it to everyone at every opportunity and the fear is you might forget your ancestry, which is really silly and stifling of people's growth in particular to our youth.
Our Mexican culture is beautiful in the right doses, but should not be the definition of what this US city is only about.
It is awesome that Professor Cuellar has succeeded to such a degree coming from humble beginnings.
People should celebrate his accomplishments instead of speculating negatives to make themselves feel better about their own lack of accomplishments great or small, because that is all the negativity is, certain people feeling inadequate. Regardless of how they spin their negativity.
Congratulations Professor Cuellar!
congradulations to he and his family. is good to see someone make it. it shows what the people from our geographical location can offer. this should of made the bronsbil herald
So do I, Keep it coming Juan
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