León Rodríguez

León Rodríguez (born 1962) is an American lawyer who headed United States Citizenship and Immigration Services under President Barack Obama.

He previously served as director the Office for Civil Rights of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, as chief of staff and deputy assistant attorney general for the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, and as the county attorney of Montgomery County, Maryland.

His parents, Isaac and Sarah (Policar) Rodríguez, had grown up in Havana and fled to the United States the previous year, during the first wave of the Cuban exodus.

After rejoining the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division for a brief tenure as chief of staff and deputy assistant attorney general, he was appointed director the Office for Civil Rights of the United States Department of Health and Human Services under Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in 2011.

In 2014, Barack Obama nominated him to serve as the director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.