MALDEF Gala Photos
Chicago Gala – June 13, 2024
MALDEF Chicago Gala 2024
MALDEF Chicago Gala 2024
(from left to right) Professor Arthur Acevedo, the Honorable Mary Minella, The Honorable Patricia Mendoza, Virginia Martinez, The Honorable Consuelo Bedoya-Witt, Thomas Witt, Guadalupe Preston, and Jose Javier Lopez
MALDEF Chicago Gala 2024
Nancy Andrade and her son with MALDEF President and General Counsel Thomas A. Saenz.
MALDEF Chicago Gala 2024
Chicago Gala 2024 honoree Judge Patricia Mendoza and MALDEF President and General Counsel Thomas A. Saenz.
MALDEF Chicago Gala 2024
The Hon. Patricia Mendoza, MALDEF President and General Counsel Thomas A. Saenz, Sandra Kennedy (daughter of honoree Rodriguez) and Karina Ayala-Bermejo.
MALDEF Chicago Gala 2024
MALDEF President and General Counsel Thomas A. Saenz and The Honorable Griselda Vega Samuel
MALDEF Chicago Gala 2024
(from left to right) Martín Enrique Klein, Olivia Alden, Susy Sandoval Vargas, Thomas Saenz, Irene Padilla, and Angel S. Rosales
MALDEF Chicago Gala 2024
(from left to right) Virginia Martinez, Anita Alvarez, and Amalia S. Rioja
MALDEF Chicago Gala 2024
Olivia Alden, Martín Enrique Klein, Susy Sandoval Vargas, and Irene Padilla
MALDEF Chicago Gala 2024
Karina Ayala-Bermejo and Reina Goodman
MALDEF Chicago Gala 2024
(from left to right) Top row: Alex Bautista, Marlén Mendoza, Emmanuel “Steven” Monroy, and Oral Bennett; Bottom row: Carlos X. Montoya, Eve Rodriguez Montoya, and Victoria Villalpando Weissman
MALDEF Chicago Gala 2024
MALDEF Chicago Gala 2024
MALDEF President and General Counsel Thomas A. Saenz with Sixto Rodriguez's daughters.
Los Angeles Gala – November 7, 2019
MALDEF Los Angeles Gala 2019
Alex Nogales, Justina Machado, Thomas A. Saenz, Richard Alatorre, and Raul Lomeli-Azoubel
MALDEF Los Angeles Gala 2019
Bill Lann Lee, Irma Rodriguez Moisa, Anna Maria Chavez, Loretta P. Martinez, Regina Montoya, Jorge A. Herrera, Cynthia Telles, Thomas A. Saenz, Aracely Muñoz, Raul Lomeli-Azoubel, Jose Sanchez, Phil Fuentes, Jeffrey Garcia, Carlos R. Soltero
MALDEF Los Angeles Gala 2019
Thomas A. Saenz, Mocetzuma Esparza, Alex Nogales
MALDEF Los Angeles Gala 2019
Thomas A. Saenz, Vilma Martinez, Carlos R. Soltero
MALDEF Los Angeles Gala 2019
Angie Alatorre, Richard Alatorre, Thomas A. Saenz, Raul Lomeli-Azoubel, Alex Nogales, Brenda Victoria Castillo
MALDEF Los Angeles Gala 2019
Denise Hulett, Maria Blanco
MALDEF Los Angeles Gala 2019
Alex Nogales
MALDEF Los Angeles Gala 2019
Justina Machado
MALDEF Los Angeles Gala 2019
Richard Alatorre
MALDEF Los Angeles Gala 2019
MALDEF Los Angeles Awards Gala 2019
MALDEF Los Angeles Gala 2019
Thomas A. Saenz
San Antonio Gala – September 27, 2019
San Antonio Gala 2019
San Antonio Gala 2019
San Antonio Gala 2019
San Antonio Gala 2019
San Antonio Gala 2019
San Antonio Gala 2019
San Antonio Gala 2019
San Antonio Gala 2019
San Antonio Gala 2019
Washington D.C. Gala – April 11, 2019
MALDEF Honorees Celebrating
Left to right: John Huerta Retired Former General Counsel of the Smithsonian Institution; Ambassador Vilma Martinez, Former MALDEF President and General Counsel and Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Partner at WilmerHale.
Celebrating MALDEF's Honorees
MALDEF Board Member Anna Maria Chávez, Esq., Executive Vice President and Chief Growth Officer at National Council on Aging and Thomas A. Saenz, President and General Counsel.
Award Winners Past, Present
Janet Murguía, President and CEO UnidosUS and recipient of the 2008 Community Service Award (Left) and Maria Gabriela “Gaby” Pacheco, Program Director TheDream.US .
Excellence in Community Service Award
José Antonio Tijerino, President and CEO Hispanic Heritage Foundation, (Left) and Thomas A. Saenz, MALDEF President and General Counsel.
Celebrating The Past, Present, Future
Andrea Senteno, MALDEF Washington, D.C. Regional Counsel speaking at MALDEF's 2019 D.C. Gala.
Marking MALDEF's 50th
Ambassador Vilma S. Martinez, Former MALDEF President and General Counsel was the 2019 Special Guest Speaker at the Washington, D.C. Awards Gala.
Excellence in Legal Profession Award
Abelardo I. Perez, Attorney and Diplomat,(left) and Thomas A. Saenz, MALDEF President and General Counsel.
Excellence in Community Service Award
Maria Gabriela “Gaby” Pacheco, Program Director TheDream.US and Thomas A. Saenz, MALDEF President and General Counsel.
Remembering MALDEF's 50th
MALDEF President and General Counsel, Thomas A. Saenz delivering the closing speech in honor of MALDEF's 50th Anniversary.