About the Author

Lynette Boggs Quintanilla is an attorney and mother of two beautiful children. She worked in both city and county government in Las Vegas, Nevada for 15 years. She was appointed by former president George W. Bush as one of his six civilian trustees of the United States Naval Academy.

She served both as a staff writer and associate editor of the St. Mary's Law Journal. She is the 2012 recipient of the Judge Jack Miller Award, presented by the St. Mary's Law Faculty Advocacy Committee and one of 10 in her law school graduation class inducted into the National Order of Barristers. Lynette earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame and was crowned Miss Oregon 1989 and competed in the 1990 Miss America Pageant. She resides in San Antonio, Texas.