Carlos Holguin - Curriculum Vitae
Carlos Holguin
Center for Human Rights & Constitutional Law
256 S. Occidental Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90057
(213) 388-8693
Professional Degrees
Juris Doctorate, May, 1979, Peoples College of Law, Los Angeles, California. Emphasis on civil rights, labor, and administrative law.
Bar Admissions
Supreme Court of the State of California, November, 1979.
United States District Court for the Central District of California, December, 1979.
United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, December, 1979.
United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, May, 1982.
United States Supreme Court, February, 1992
United States District Court for the Southern District of California, July, 1992
Professional Experience
General Counsel, Center for Human Rights & Constitutional Law, Los Angeles, California. 1984 to present.
Duties: General counsel for non-profit, public interest legal advocacy center specializing in legal, legislative, and educational work in furtherance of the rights of immigrants and refugees. Serve as lead and co-counsel in impact litigation involving deportation, political asylum, the rights of juveniles, and social services.
Additional duties include administration of grants, financial operations, office computerization, and community liaison.
Staff attorney, Westside Legal Services, Santa Monica, California, 1982-83.
Duties: Serve as sole staff attorney for community legal assistance office providing services for eligible low income clients. Coordinate and supervise U.C.L.A. law students in clinical program involving counseling and direct representation of eligible clients. Maintain caseload with emphasis on eviction defense, government benefits, and consumer rights.
Staff attorney, National Center or Immigrants' Rights, Los Angeles, California (Research Associate prior to bar admission), 1977-82.
Duties: Serve as principal and co-counsel for national Legal Services support center. Heavy emphasis on impact litigation involving immigration, civil rights of non-citizens, administrative law and procedure, eligibility for government benefits, and constitutional law.
Additional duties include serving as a resource attorney for Legal Services field programs in the areas of immigration law and procedure, refugee rights, and federal litigation; training of Legal Services attorneys and paralegals; legislative monitoring and analysis; preparation of technical articles and training materials on immigrants' and refugees' rights and federal litigation; coordination and supervision of El Rescate, a direct services project providing legal assistance to Central American refugees.
Law Clerk, Rodriguez & Vellanoweth, Los Angeles, California, 1977-78.
Duties: Immigration counseling and visa processing; preparation of pleadings and discovery; research and preparation of memoranda of law; law office management.
Faculty Coordinator, Peoples College of Law, Los Angeles, California, 1976-77.
Duties: Administration of law school curriculum; development of class schedules; faculty assignment and liaison; bar liaison; coordination of student enrollment.
Community and Professional Associations
Member, Association for Residency and Citizenship of America, 1998 to present. Director, One-Stop Immigration and Educational Center, 1999 to present. Member, Los Angeles County Bar Association, Immigration Section, 1984 to present; Member, La Raza Legal Alliance, 1975 to 1982; Member, Centro de Accion Social Autonimo, 1977 to 1978; Member, Jose Jaques Medina Defense Committee, 1978; Member, International Brotherhood of General Workers, Los Angeles, 1979 to 1980.
Publications
Maintenance of Non-Immigrant Student Status, 1979 (A handbook for attorneys and students on legal requirements for foreign students); Local Police Enforcement of Immigration Law: Litigation Under the Federal Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. 1983, Immigration Law Bulletin, 1979; Co-author, Immigration and Naturalization Law, Legal Services Corp., 1982 (A Legal Services practice manual); Analysis of the 1980 Refugee Act, Immigration Law Bulletin, 1980; Non-citizen Eligibility for Social Services and Benefits Available to State Residents and Domiciliaries, Immigration Law Bulletin (1981); Analysis of INS Policies on the Detention and Release of Juveniles, National Lawyers Guild Immigration Reports, 1985).
Special Skills
Read, write, and speak Spanish. Macintosh computer systems, including Pascal, 68xxx assembler, telecommunications, and turn-key data base applications.
References
Furnished on request.
