[2] He hosted his own call-in radio show on KSL-Radio called "Perspective" and had his own column for both the Deseret News and the Salt Lake Tribune.
His professional papers are archived at the J. Willard Marriott Library in the Special Collections at the University of Utah.
His parents moved to Utah when he was a young boy for the job opportunities; his father was a miner at the Bingham copper mine.
Michael Martinez was the third Hispanic person to graduate from the University of Utah School of Law, in 1976.
Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah and passing the bar, Michael Martinez became the first practicing Hispanic lawyer in the state.
He was appointed by President Ronald Reagan as Deputy General Counsel of the Equal Opportunity Commission In 1982.
[7] As the President of the National Hispanic Bar Association, he gave testimony at the 1987 U.S. Senate hearings on the confirmation of Anthony Kennedy to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Along with Antonia Hernandez, who was President and General Counsel of the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund, they raised doubts about Judge Kennedy's civil rights positions.
Joe Biden was chair of the Senate Judicial Hearings [8] He went on to found his own private practice where he focused on representing Spanish-speaking clients.
They used 47 SWAT team members for the raid and detained people in the store, the restaurant, and the tortilla factory, including the owner's young children, ages 6 and 11.
Callaghan promised voters when she ran for office in 1998 that she would not take any severance payments if her term was shortened due to a decision to switch from commission to mayor-council governance structure.
[13] Workman, a Republican, was accused of misusing funds to pay for an employee at a local chapter of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America where her daughter worked in the finance office.
Before the jury returned, Martinez offered to reduce the two felonies to class B misdemeanors, but Workman refused the deal.