Growing up in Weslaco in the four-county Rio Grande Valley, Armando Martínez always wanted to go to law school.And as a state representative, Martínez continues to fight in the Texas Legislature to create a public law school for his home region – an effort that has seen the Texas House of Representatives approve his vision for deep South Texas, but which has failed to pass the Texas Senate.In 1998, after earning his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas-Pan American, which later merged with the University of Texas at Brownsville to form the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Martínez ...