Milagros S. Cruz provides clients personal and professional attention. With extensive experience, it is important to maintain a level of excellence to which clients have become accustomed.
A bilingual native Puerto Rican New Yorker, graduate of Mount Holyoke College and University of Connecticut School of Law. In 1987, she moved to Connecticut to attend law school, settled there and then moved to Boston. Practicing law for 30 years. Her career launched at Connecticut Legal Services, where she advocated for the institutionalized elderly and impoverished community. She provided pro bono services throughout her career. As President of the Connecticut Hispanic Bar Association, she led a successful legislative campaign to obtain funding for civil courts to provide litigants with access to foreign language interpreters. In private practice she has advocated for abuse and neglected children and she has been a vehicle for justice to the marginalized. She practiced immigration law a couple of decades and was an Adjunct Professor of Legal Studies, at the University of Hartford.
She is an advocate for global peace and justice. In 2013, While in private practice she co-founded, International Hartford, where she led the organization for many years as its board chair and is responsible for its initiation, success and growth. In 2014, she founded the Immigration Law Committee of the Connecticut Bar Association. She also served two terms as the Liaison of the Hartford Immigration Court for the American immigration Lawyers Association, Connecticut Chapter. Throughout her career she volunteers on several boards and serves as a mentor to many. A contemplative Catholic she dedicates herself to helping others come to internal peace through prayer and meditation.
She is the recipient of numerous awards: Connecticut Hispanic Bar Association President Recognition and founding member, Mount Holyoke College, Community Service Award, Connecticut Bar Foundation, Lifetime Fellow, Lawyers of Distinction, Immigration Law, International Hartford, Founding Member, National Association of Hispanic Scholarship Awardee. Her hobbies include, watercolor/oil painting, sailing and exploring different cultures.
