Ángel Godinez Luévano (; born October 1, 1949) is an American labor leader and

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who was the principal litigant in the class action suit '' Luévano v. Campbell''. He is also a graduate of the

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Background

Luévano, who is of

Mexican-American Mexican Americans are Americans of full or partial Mexican descent. In 2022, Mexican Americans comprised 11.2% of the US population and 58.9% of all Hispanic and Latino Americans. In 2019, 71% of Mexican Americans were born in the United State ...

ethnicity, went on to work as a career civil servant with

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. He eventually served as the Deputy Director of the Division of Program Operations in its national office. After serving three terms as State Director for California of

LULAC The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is the largest and oldest Hispanic and Latin-American civil rights organization in the United States. It was established on February 17, 1929, in Corpus Christi, Texas, largely by Hispanics re ...

, He also served as National Vice President for the Far-West Region of LULAC.

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* American trade union leaders Activists for Hispanic and Latino American civil rights American civil rights activists Living people University of California College of the Law, San Francisco alumni American activists of Mexican descent Roman Catholic activists 1949 births American lawyers of Mexican descent {{US-activist-stub