Chairman of the Board's Biography.
Kenneth I. Trujillo became Chairman of the Board of the Greater Philadelphia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in February 2006. A member of Trujillo Rodriguez & Richards, LLC, Mr. Trujillo returned to the Firm after serving as the City Solicitor of Philadelphia for two years. As City Solicitor, Mr. Trujillo represented the Mayor, City Council and all departments, agencies and commissions of the City of Philadelphia. In addition, Mr. Trujillo sat on the Mayor's cabinet and ran the 155-lawyer Law Department. During Mr. Trujillo's tenure, the Law Department instituted a number of significant initiatives. For example, in April 2000, the City of Philadelphia filed a lawsuit against handgun manufacturers. Mr. Trujillo played a major role in the planning of the Republican National Convention and advised the Mayor in implementing the Neighborhood Transformation Initiative and the development of the Eagles and Phillies stadiums.
Mr. Trujillo was born in Espanola, New Mexico and raised in Durango, Colorado. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Evangel College in Springfield, Missouri. Mr. Trujillo graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1986 and joined the Philadelphia law firm of Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis. While at the Schnader firm, Mr. Trujillo served the Philadelphia Law Department on loan for six months as part of the Public/Private Leadership Initiative. Mr. Trujillo joined the United States Attorney's Office in 1990. As an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Mr. Trujillo prosecuted some of the area's most significant financial fraud, labor corruption, and tax cases.
A substantial portion of Mr. Trujillo's work has included the representation of U.S. businesses in Mexico, and Mexican companies doing business in the United States. Mr. Trujillo has represented, among other companies, Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico, the Mexican railroad, and Grupo Andersen's, S.A. de C.V., the largest restaurant chain in Mexico. Mr. Trujillo also does a significant amount of retirement, severance, and employee benefit litigation. Mr. Trujillo represents public entities in complex litigation. For example, Mr. Trujillo represented the City of Camden and the City of Philadelphia in handgun litigation. He also represented a Native American tribe in litigation seeking to recover damages from tobacco companies.
Mr. Trujillo is active locally and nationally in civic and business matters. He is the First Vice Chair of the National Council of La Raza Board of Directors and Chair of the Board of Directors of Congreso de Latinos Unidos, Inc. In addition, Mr. Trujillo is the Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of Health Partners, a 150,000 member managed care organization. Mr. Trujillo serves on the Board of Trustees of the University of the Arts and on the Temple University Health System Board of Overseers.
In 1997, Mr. Trujillo was named by Mayor Ed Rendell to serve as a member of the City of Philadelphia Police Corruption Task Force. In 1999, Mr. Trujillo was named one of the Philadelphia Business Journal's "40 Under 40." Most recently, Mr. Trujillo served as Deputy Counsel to Governor Ed Rendell's Transition Team and shortly thereafter, Governor Rendell appointed Mr. Trujillo to the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority, the entity that oversees the City of Philadelphia's finances and most recently as Commissioner of the Delaware River Port Authority. In 2004, Mayor John F. Street asked Mr. Trujillo to serve on the Ethics Committee of his transition team. Mr. Trujillo is a member of the adjunct faculty at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Mr. Trujillo is a past President of the Hispanic Bar Association of Pennsylvania and board member of the Hispanic Bar Association of Pennsylvania Legal Education Fund and the Hispanic National Bar Association Board of Governors. He is a past member of the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Bar Association and co-chair of its Federal Courts Committee. Mr. Trujillo was elected to membership in the American Law Institute.