Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar | |
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Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California | |
Assumed office January 5, 2015 |
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Appointed by | Jerry Brown |
Preceded by | Marvin Baxter |
Personal details | |
Born |
Matamoros, Mexico |
July 27, 1972
Spouse(s) | Lucy Koh |
Alma mater |
Harvard University Yale University Stanford University |
Mariano-Florentino ("Tino") Cuéllar (born July 27, 1972) is a Justice of the Supreme Court of California, an academic, and a former official in the Clinton and Obama administrations. He is an expert in administrative law, criminal law, international law, public organizations, and the law of public health and safety. He was previously the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and the Director of Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He has been the Co-Director of Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation.
An American citizen, Cuéllar was born in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, México, and attended catholic school in Brownsville, Texas. At age 14, he moved with his family to Calexico, California, where he attended the local public high school.
He graduated with a B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard in 1993, a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1997, and a Ph.D. in political science from Stanford in 2000. When he was in law school, Cuéllar co-founded a not-for-profit organization providing opportunities for students to teach English in underserved communities, and spent summers working at the U.S. Senate and the President's Council of Economic Advisers.