John D. Trasvina

John D. Trasviña

Born	San Francisco, California
Alma mater	Harvard University Stanford Law School
Occupation	Attorney Dean of the University of San Francisco School of Law

John David Trasviña is the dean of the University of San Francisco School of Law. Previously, he was Assistant Secretary of the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), and Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices at the U.S. Department of Justice.

Trasviña is a native of San Francisco, where he attended Lowell High School; he then received degrees from Harvard University and Stanford Law School. He has focused his work at the local and federal levels on civil rights, voting rights, immigration policy, worker rights and education.

After graduating from Stanford Law School, Trasviña began his career as a Deputy City Attorney in San Francisco from 1983 to 1985, and then went to MALDEF in Washington D.C. from 1985 to 1987 as a legislative counsel. From there he moved to Capitol Hill to work for Paul Simon in 1987 first as counsel and then in 1993 as General Counsel & Staff Director for the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights.