Orozco MaryVirginia

American lawyer of Mexican descent, noted as California’s first Latina female lawyer, and the first Latina to graduate from Loyola Law School. She was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1962. With the Spanish-speaking community as her major focus, Orozco set out to establish a legal practice that specialized in family, civil and criminal law. She eventually established the law firm Orozco & Orozco with her twin brother Hector. Orozco faced both racial and sex discrimination while practising in the California courtrooms. In 1962, Orozco was a founder of the Mexican American Bar Association (MABA) in Los Angeles, and was a founding member for the Latina Lawyers Bar Association. She retired from practising law in 1987. Orozco died on 5 June 2019 at age 90. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less