General Meeting: Saturday, January 9, 2009
Saturday, January 9, 2010
NOTE: We are meeting 1 week later due to New Year’s Holiday.
Time: 9:30 AM Coffee, 10:00 Speaker
Place: Sun City Social Center Ballroom
NOTE: We are meeting in a different location.
Program: Carmen Cortes-Harms
Carmen Cortes-Harms has been the Director of Immigration Legal Services at Catholic Charities of Central Texas since June 2008. Prior to her current position she was a Mexican Foreign Service Officer for fifteen years. She took an early retirement from the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs in December 2007.
Mrs. Cortes-Harms served at the Consulate General of Mexico in Austin, Texas from July of 1998 to December 2007. She began her work at the Austin Mexican Consulate as the Director of Documentation for Mexican and Foreign Citizens, Powers of Attorney and Civil Registry. After one year in this position she was promoted to the Consulate’s Chief of Protection and Legal Affairs Department. The Protection and Legal Affairs Department provided Mexican nationals in South Central Texas with criminal, civil, and labor legal services as well as with human rights assistance. Prior to being posted in Austin, Texas Mrs. Cortes-Harms served at the Consulate General of Mexico in Chicago, Illinois where she also worked on criminal, civil, labor and human rights cases.