Angelique Ortega, J.D., is associate dean of student services in the College of Law at Florida International University. From 2002–03 and from 2007–14 she was a member of the College’s legal skills and values faculty.
Angelique Ortega earned her J.D. (cum laude) from Harvard Law School and served as a member of the Harvard Human Rights Journal. She graduated first in her class from the University of Florida, where she was co-valedictorian, named to Phi Beta Kappa, and recognized as the Peat Marwick Outstanding Scholar. She received a B.A. (with honors) in economics and political science.
After law school, she clerked for the Honorable Stanley Marcus on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and served for nearly five years as an assistant county attorney in the Dade County Attorney's Office, where she handled general commercial contract and construction litigation, and drafted and reviewed commercial contracts, county commission resolutions, and ordinances. In 2001–02, Dean Ortega was an adjunct legal writing instructor at the St. Thomas University School of Law, and from 2006–07, a professor of legal rhetoric at American University's Washington College of Law. In 2005, the students at the FIU College of Law awarded her The Pioneer Award in recognition of her commitment and service to the FIU College of Law.
As dean of students, Ortega heads the FIU College of Law’s Office of Student Services, which is responsible for student life and major events at the school, from first-year orientation to commencement. She is the faculty sponsor for the Student Bar Association, the College’s student government, which serves as the parent organization to over thirty student groups at the College of Law.