Rochelle Mercedes Garza
Rochelle Garza | |
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| Chair of the United States Commission on Civil Rights | |
| Assumed office March 17, 2023 | |
| President | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Norma V. Cantu |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1984 or 1985 (age 40–41) |
| Party | Democratic |
| Education | Brown University (BA) University of Houston (JD) |
Rochelle Mercedes Garza (born 1984/1985) is an American attorney from Brownsville, Texas, who currently serves as one of the five Commissioners on the United States Commission on Civil Rights. She is a civil rights attorney who practices family law, criminal defense, Immigration law, constitutional law and is the president of the Texas Civil Rights Project. In 2017 a federal notice was named after her because of her work in a notable reproductive rights case.
She was the Democratic nominee in the 2022 Texas Attorney General election, losing to incumbent Ken Paxton.