A Mexican American is the first Latina president of Harvard Law Review

The Harvard Regulation Assessment has named a California-born daughter of Mexican immigrants as its latest president, elevating a Latina to the highest of some of the prestigious U.S. legislation journals for the primary time in its 135-year historical past.

Harvard Regulation Faculty scholar Priscila Coronado, 24, stated in an e-mail Sunday that her experiences rising up as a Mexican American have knowledgeable her views and that she wished to “work exhausting to point out how being a Latina is a vital a part of who I’m.”

Regulation opinions are staffed by the highest college students at U.S. legislation colleges, who are sometimes recruited for judicial clerkships and different prestigious jobs within the career.

Authorized and political luminaries who’ve labored on the Harvard Regulation Assessment embrace President Barack Obama, who was named the journal’s first Black president in 1990. Three serving members of the U.S. Supreme Court docket have served as editors.

Coronado was born and raised in Downey, California. She is the primary in her household to attend faculty and earned her undergraduate diploma from the College of California Los Angeles.

Her authorized pursuits embrace training legislation and incapacity rights. When the educational 12 months is completed, she plans to work as a summer season affiliate on the legislation agency Munger, Tolles & Olson.

Coronado’s election on Saturday got here a 12 months after the assessment chosen Hassaan Shahawy to grow to be the primary Muslim to function president. In a press release, he referred to as Coronado a “rigorous scholar and a passionate advocate.”

Andrew Crespo, a Harvard legislation professor who as a scholar was elected the assessment’s first Hispanic president in 2007, on Twitter congratulated Coronado in Spanish, writing: “¡Felicidades, Priscila!”

The assessment’s first feminine president, Susan Estrich, was elected in 1977. It elected its first brazenly homosexual president in 2011 and named the primary Black lady to the position in 2017.