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Press Release: LULAC Applauds President Barack Obama’s Nomination of Tom Perez For The Department Of Justice Civil Rights Division And Ines Triay At The Department Of Energy. Perez and Triay bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the positions. March 17, 2009 For more information contact: Washington, DC – The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the oldest and largest Hispanic civil rights organization in the country, commends President Obama for the nomination of Tom Perez as Assistant Attorney General to the Civil Rights division at the Department of Justice and Ines Triay as Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management at the Department of Energy. “LULAC works closely with the civil rights division at the U.S. Department of Justice in monitoring any hate crimes against minorities and responding accordingly,” said LULAC National President Rosa Rosales. “Mr. Perez has spent his life working as a public servant and twelve years as a federal prosecutor for the Civil Rights Division where he prosecuted and supervised the prosecution of some of the Department’s most high profile civil rights cases including a hate crimes case in Texas involving a group of white supremacists who went on a deadly, racially motivated crime spree.” Tom Perez is a nationally known civil rights lawyer and community leader. Besides having served as the Chair of the Casa of Maryland and on the Board of Directors of the National Immigration Forum, Perez most recently served as Maryland’s Secretary of Labor, Licensing and Regulation. He was also a part of the Obama Transition Team, was elected to the Montgomery County Council from 2002-2006, and served as the Council’s President in 2005. He was the first Latino ever elected to the council. He served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights under Attorney General Janet Reno. Perez previously served as Special Counsel to Senator Edward Kennedy, and was Senator Kennedy’s principal adviser on civil rights, criminal justice and constitutional issues. Perez is a graduate of Brown University, Harvard Law School and the John F. Kennedy School of Government. President Obama also nominated Ines Triay to serve as the Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management at the Department of Energy. Triay has 24 years of experience at the Department, as well as 14 years at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. She was born in Cuba, raised in Puerto Rico, and received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Miami in Florida. “We are also excited to be working with Ines Triay who has previous experience working at the Department of Energy and our partnership will continue to grow with her leadership,” said LULAC National President Rosa Rosales. # # # |