Ada Norah Henriquez

Ada Norah Henriquez is an accomplished lawyer with over 20 years of professional experience as a lawyer in Puerto Rico Judicial System and in the Federal District Court of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. She completed a Juris Doctor and a bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in Sociology at the UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO Río Piedras. Ada Norah Henriquez is a wife, an entrepreneur, and a passionate public servant. She is former Associate Administrator of the Public Housing Residents Occupancy Division overseeing ten regional offices and supervising 105 employees for the Administration of Public Housing. Ada Norah Henriquez is also a Former Director of Legal Division at the Authority for Infrastructure Financing. After decades of serving Puerto Rico as a public servant, an entrepreneur, a volunteer to community and national causes Ada Norah Henriquez is candidate for the 117th Congress of the United States of America as the Resident Commissioner for Puerto Rico.

Professional Experience – Private Sector 

• Henriquez Law Service - Attorney at Law; Bankruptcy Of -counsel 

• AHC Law Services - Attorney at Law; Bankruptcy Of-counsel, Civil, Criminal, Administrative and Appellate Litigation at local forums

• University of Turabo Yabucoa Campus - Lecturer and Guest Speaker 

• North Conflict Solution Center Private Practice - Mediator & Arbitrator

• Enrique Nassar Rizek & Associates – Attorney at Law; Litigation Division, bankruptcy court litigation, at Puerto Rico Federal District Court

• University of Puerto Rico School of Law - Professor’s Aide-Criminal Law, Reader Aide

• The New York Foundling Hospital - Social Worker - Crisis Intervention

• Professional Experience – Public Sector 

• Associate Administrator on Public Housing Residents Occupancy Division at Public Housing Administration.

• Former Director of Legal Division at the Authority for Infrastructure Financing.

Curiosities about Ada Norah Henriquez

• Ada Norah Henriquez is Capitana, Arecibeña, Boricua born in New Jersey

• Did you know that Ada Norah Henriquez was admitted to the University of Puerto Rico at the age of 15, and in 4 years completed a Magna Cum Laude Bachellors Degree in Psychology with a minor in sociology?

• Did you know that Ada Norah Henriquez worked as a public servant? She was Associate Administrator of the Public Housing Residents Occupancy Division overseeing ten regional offices and supervising 105 employees for the Administration of Public Housing. 

• Did you know that Ada Norah is a former director of the legal division at Infrastructure Financing Authority (AFI)?

• Did you know that as a volunteer Ada Norah worked on the Community Committee for interaction with the Puerto Rico Police Department? Ada Norah represented the legal professionals sector to help the Puerto Rico Police Department (Humacao) respond to the findings of the Federal Report and assist in the development of the plan to comply with the requirements of the Federal Government.

• Did you know that Ada Norah Henriquez was a reader for the blind and visually impaired?

• Did you know that at age of 19, Ada Norah Henriquez began working in New York, at a community-based program aimed to strengthen Students, families and educational agents regarding drug and alcohol consumption prevention among children in foster care; she served families of varied races and backgrounds?

•  Did you know that Ada Norah Henriquez has hosted two radio shows? Analysis with Light and Puerto Rico There is Still Hope.

• Did you know that Ada Norah Henriquez is a member ally of the Alliance Defending Freedom? She joined in 2008. 

• Did you know that Ada Norah Henriquez chaired the Citizen Coalition in Defense of the Family (CCEDFA) and since 2011 she has been participating in the initiatives by the Family Research Council in Washington DC, in defense of religious liberties, life and family?

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