May 17, 2011

VIP at Hanna

U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis will speak to Hanna High School students on Friday, May 20 at 2:00 pm in the school’s gym. Solis will be in Brownsville to address graduates at Spring Commencement at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College on Saturday, May 21.

Prior to her confirmation as Labor Secretary, Solis represented the 32nd Congressional District in California, a position she held from 2001 to 2009. A nationally recognized leader on the environment, Solis became the first woman to receive the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award in 2000 for her pioneering work on environmental justice issues. Her California environmental justice legislation, enacted in 1999, was the first of its kind in the nation to become law.