Susana
Lorenzo-Giguere

Susana Lorenzo-Giguere is an attorney for the United States Department of Justice, currently serving in the Disability Rights Section of the Civil Rights Division.

Washington, District of Columbia

With a little over two decades of legal experience, Susana Lorenzo-Giguere has assisted the United States government in prosecuting criminals, supporting criminal prosecutions across international borders, ensuring disability rights, and protecting the rights of voters, particularly minority language voters. Since 1991, Lorenzo-Giguere has worked in both the Criminal Division and the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice. Susana Lorenzo-Giguere has been part of the legal team representing the United States government in numerous cases where there had been evidence that voters who speak Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Korean, Vietnamese, Navajo, or Keres, and had limited-English proficiency, were not given sufficient access to bilingual assistance, voter information, or ballots in their native language. For her accomplished legal work in minority language voting rights cases, Lorenzo-Giguere has been commended by the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, the Navajo Board of Election Supervisors and Navajo Election Administration of the Navajo Nation, and the Vietnamese Federation of San Diego.

She has spoken for the Civil Rights Division on minority language rights at the Ballot Access and Voting Integrity Symposium for US Attorneys at the National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina, in 2008 and in Washington, DC, in 2004 and 2005; at the Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership in Washington, DC, in 2006; and at the National Alliance of Vietnamese Service Agencies in Houston, Texas, in 2004.

Susana Lorenzo-Giguere has also supported fair elections around the world and served as an advisor, trainer, and delegate with the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs in programs in the Ivory Coast, for Romanian election officials, and regarding the parliamentary election laws of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Outside of her legal career, Susana Lorenzo-Giguere has taught flamenco at schools in the Washington, DC area, been part of productions at the Kennedy Center with the Washington Opera, and has toured with the Spanish Dance Society and the Jose Greco Company. She also holds membership in the American Guild of Musical Artists. Susana Lorenzo-Giguere currently resides in Washington, DC with her family.