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| Name | Richard Elías |
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Tucson, Arizona , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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00, 1958
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| Died | March 28, 2020
(62 years)
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| Contributor | RBH |
| Last Modifed | RBH
Apr 10, 2020 01:28am |
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| Info | Among numerous honors Richard has earned in recent years are: Public Service Award of the University of Arizona Alumni Association; Arizona Minority Bar Association Community Service Award; Job Path’s Jim Haag Award for Vision, Initiative and Perseverance; Sky Island Alliance Public Service Award; National Latino AIDS Awareness Day Special Recognition Award; Salpointe Catholic High School Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame Award.
Other boards Richard serves on include the Pima County Board of Health, the Little Chapel of All Nations Board of Directors, the Salpointe Catholic High School Board of Directors, the Diabetes Association Board of Directors, Tucson Unified School District Mexican-American Studies Advisory Board, the Juvenile Justice Executive Board and the UA Healthcare Hospital at Kino Advisory Board.
Richard entered public office after a lengthy career in the government and non-profit development of affordable housing. He earned a degree in History, with a minor in Mexican-American Studies, from the University of Arizona.
A fifth-generation Tucsonan, Richard is the son of a longtime local union printer, and was a union shop steward with Retail Clerk’s Union Local 727 (now United Food and Commercial Workers Local 99) when he worked in the grocery industry before completing college.
Richard is married to Emily Velde Elías and they have a daughter, Luz.
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