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2021 OUTSTANDING SERVICE AWARD WINNERS
Lola Velazquez-Aguilu
Medtronic
Private Practice Lawyer Award
Lola Velazquez-Aguilu is lead counsel for Medtronic’s Brain Modulation business. Prior to serving as lead counsel for the Brain Modulation business, Lola was a Litigation and Investigations Counsel at Medtronic. Lola is engaged in significant volunteer and pro bono efforts outside
of her work at Medtronic, including previously serving as Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s appointed Chair of the Commission on Judicial Selection—a jointly appointed body that oversees the recruitment and recommendation of judicial nominees. Additionally, Lola has served since June of 2020 as a Special Assistant Attorney General in the prosecution of the former Minneapolis police officers charged with the killing of George Floyd.
Prior to joining Medtronic, Lola served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney
in the District of Minnesota, where she was assigned to the white- collar and public corruption section of the criminal division. While at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Lola prosecuted large-scale financial crimes including bank fraud conspiracies, mortgage fraud, investment fraud, embezzlement, and tax fraud. Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Lola was a litigation associate at Dorsey and Whitney; she also clerked for retired Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Alan C. Page and U.S. District Court Judge Ann D. Montgomery.
Lola has been recognized two times as an Attorney of the Year by Minnesota Lawyer, most recently for her work prosecuting the former executives of Starkey Laboratories. In 2016, Lola was recognized by the Hispanic National Bar Association as a Top Lawyer Under 40 and in 2019 Lola received the Minnesota Lawyer Diversity and Inclusion Award for her work helping to diversify the judiciary in Minnesota. Lola is an active member of several legal organizations including the Minnesota Hispanic Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association, and the Infinity Project, whose mission is to increase the gender equity and judicial diversity in the state and federal bench.
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