An education and legal expert from Brownsville has been tapped by President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team to serve on the team’s education committee. Norma Cantu, a law and education professor at the University of Texas-Austin, will be one of 20 members on the education transition team. Cantu served 8 years as the Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights in the Clinton administration in the 1990’s. She has also litigated cases for the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
