Education
University of Michigan Law School. University of Michigan.
University of Michigan Law School. University of Michigan.
He was formerly an attorney for the United States Department of Justice, where he was one of the United States" most highly decorated federal prosecutors. CdeBaca was raised on a cattle ranch in Iowa. He graduated from Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1990 before attending the University of Michigan Law School where he completed a Juris Doctor degree in 1993.
After graduating from law school, CdeBaca joined the United States. Department of Justice"s Civil Rights Division.
At the Justice Department, he prosecuted cases involving involuntary servitude, alien smuggling, money laundering, and organized crime, as well as racial violence and police brutality. He served as counsel to the House Committee on the Judiciary, where his portfolio included immigration reform, civil liberties—especially the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Acting, and civil rights issues such as involuntary servitude.
As an American diplomat, he coordinates the United States. Government"s fight against contemporary forms of slavery.
His family has been in what is now the United States since the 1500s, dating back to the explorations of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca in 1527. In the ensuing years, his family has played a prominent role in New Mexico politics and culture, including the first Latino Governor Ezequiel Cabeza De Baca, Lieutenant Governor Luis CdeBaca, and the pioneer of education and Chicana literature, Fabiola Cabeza de Baca. He was editor of the Michigan Law Review.
