President
Richard Peña
Richard Peña is President of the American Bar Foundation. Long active in the Texas bar, Mr. Peña is past President of the State Bar of Texas and of the Travis County Bar Association, and served as Chair of the Texas Bar Foundation.
Mr. Peña has received three Presidential Citations from the State Bar of Texas for his meritorious service to the profession and has been selected a member of the prestigious American Inns of Court. He received the Distinguished Lawyer Award presented by the Austin Bar Association in 2007. He received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Texas where the law school faculty awarded him an honorary membership in the Order of the Coif.
At the national level, Mr. Peña currently serves on the Board of Governors of the American Bar Association and led the Texas delegation to the ABA. He also served on the Executive Council of the National Conference of Bar Presidents, and was chair of the ABA’s Commission on Immigration. He is on the Advisory Board of People to People Ambassador Programs and has led delegations of Texas and U.S lawyers to China, Tibet, South Africa, Cuba, Vietnam, Cambodia, India, and Russia. Mr. Pena is listed in numerous Who’s Who publications, including Who’s Who in American Law and Who’s Who in the World.