Judge Martinez attended UW in the early 1970s, where he was active in MEChA. After earning a law degree, he became a King County deputy prosecutor, a Superior Court judge, and since 2004, a U.S. District Court Judge. (3 min)

Occupying Beacon Hill School

MEChA de UW students were also an integral part of the Chicano community’s takeover of an abandoned school and subsequent establishment of the Chicano community center, El Centro de la Raza.  Ricardo Martinez describes the takeover.