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Maslon Attorney Beatriz Menanteau Elected to Board of Directors of the Minnesota Hispanic Bar Association

Maslon Attorney Beatriz Menanteau was elected to a Board Member position with the Minnesota Hispanic Bar Association (MHBA).  Menanteau has been a member of the MHBA for two years, recently seeking to make her involvement more formal.

The Minnesota Hispanic Bar Association is a non-profit association founded in 1991 dedicated to advancing the interests of Hispanic attorneys and law students in Minnesota. MHBA strives to promote professional growth and opportunity for Latino law students and attorneys, to provide community service and to ensure access to justice for all. MHBA has approximately 100 members representing all sectors of the legal community, including judges, attorneys, law students and legal professionals. MHBA's attorney members are leaders in the state judiciary, local and state government, private law firms, multinational corporations, public interest organizations and more.

Beatriz Menanteau is an attorney in the firm's Litigation Practice Group. She is a 2003 cum laude graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School. During law school, Beatriz interned at a Human Rights NGO in Caracas, Venezuela and clerked in the Hennepin County Attorney's Office, Adult Prosecution Division. After graduating from law school, Beatriz clerked for U.S. Magistrate Judge Franklin L. Noel and U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan Richard Nelson of the U.S. District Court. Beatriz was born in Chile and has traveled throughout Latin America, Europe, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and Africa.