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Suzanne Villalon - Hinojosa
svfatty@heardandsmith.com
 Suzanne
Villalon - Hinojosa is a native of Weslaco, Texas. She is a graduate
and former Assistant Regional Director of Admissions at Princeton
University. Suzanne attended the joint graduate degree program at the
University of Texas and received a Doctor of Jurisprudence and Masters
of Public Affairs. Upon graduation she accepted a Postdoctoral Fellow
at the University of Houston Law Center to research higher education
issues in Texas. She was subsequently an expert witness in LULAC v.
Richards; a class action lawsuit which drew attention to the limited
college programs (particularly graduate and professional schools)
located along the Texas border. Suzanne has worked in state and local
government. First, she served as an Assistant District Attorney in
Hidalgo County Texas. Suzanne was formerly an attorney with the Office
of Public Insurance Counsel where she represented consumers as a class
on health insurance matters before the State Board of Insurance (SBI).
She then worked as a Senior Staff Attorney at the Texas Workers’
Compensation Commission. Suzanne has since worked in the private
sector representing claimants on both workers’ compensation and
social security claims. She is a former recipient of a Legal
Professionalism Award from the State Bar of Texas and former President
of the Chicano Law School Association at the University of Texas
School of Law. Suzanne is also a former member of the SBI Utilization
Review Advisory Committee, the SBI HCFA Benefits Counseling Program
Advisory Council, the Cultural Arts Council of Houston’s panel to
review grant applications in Arts-in-Education and a former Board
member of Adelante Aztlan East. She is currently a member of the
College of the State Bar of Texas and admitted to practice before the
United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. She is also a
sustaining member of the National Organization of Social Security
Claimants’ Representatives.
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