Mary Virginia Orozco was California’s first Latina female lawyer.
Orozco completed her undergraduate studies in psychology and sociology at the California State University, Los Angeles before attending Loyola Law School.
With the Spanish-speaking community as her major focus, Orozco set out to establish a legal practice that specialized in family, civil and criminal law.
[3][4] Orozco faced both racial and sex discrimination while practicing in the California courtrooms.
[5] In 1962, Orozco was a founder of the Mexican American Bar Association (MABA) in Los Angeles,[6] and was a founding member for the Latina Lawyers Bar Association.