[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 30 (Monday, March 14, 2005)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E439]
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   HONORING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF SAN ANTONIO CITY COUNCILMAN ART HALL

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                           HON. HENRY CUELLAR

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, March 14, 2005

  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Speaker, I rise to recognize San Antonio City 
Councilman Art Hall for his service to the people of San Antonio 
District 8.
  Mr. Hall was born in Hempstead, TX, and grew up in Lubbock. He 
attended Harvard University, and received a joint law degree/MBA from 
Texas Tech Law and Business Schools. He is an expert in finance and 
corporate law, and received the Pforzheimer Foundation Scholar Award at 
Harvard and the Clifford Chance Business Law Prize from the University 
of Wales.
  Art Hall is a central part of the Texas legal community. He has been 
published in several law and international finance journals, including 
St. Mary's University Law Review on Minority Issues and the Journal of 
International Financial Markets. In 1998, he was hired to serve as the 
director of the Academic Excellence Program as an Adjunct Professor at 
St. Mary's Law School. He was also general counsel for the investment 
banking firm Southwestern Capital Markets, the nation's oldest 
Hispanic-owned investment banking firm. Today, Councilman Hall is an 
owner and the President of Presidio Asset Management.
  Art Hall was elected to San Antonio's City Council in 2003. He is the 
youngest person ever to represent his district, and has the distinction 
of being the first African American elected outside of the city's East 
side. He has been named one of the city's ``Top 40 Under 40'' rising 
stars by the San Antonio Business Journal.
  Mr. Speaker, Councilman Art Hall has an extraordinarily bright future 
ahead of him, and I am happy to have the chance to recognize him.

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