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2026 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Angela Pagán, President
Angela Pagán, Esq. is a criminal defense attorney in Palm Beach County and the owner of Angie Pagán Law, PLLC. Ms. Pagán graduated from the University of Florida with Honors and obtained two undergraduate degrees, a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Bachelor of Arts in Criminology. As an undergraduate student, Ms. Pagán became a Founding Sister of the Chi Chapter of Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Inc., the first Latina/Hispanic sorority in the country, in Florida and at the University of Florida. Ms. Pagán obtained her law degree from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where she graduated Cum Laude at the top of her class. While a law student Ms. Pagán was elected President of the Criminal Law Association and Vice President of the Law Student Council. Additionally, she was selected to study abroad twice, furthering her legal studies at Montpellier University in France and Leiden University in the Netherlands. Ms. Pagán started her legal career at the Office of the Public Defender in Palm Beach County, where she worked as an Investigator and Assistant Public Defender for over nine years. She left in 2012 to go into private practice and in 2014 she founded her firm, the Angie Pagán Law, PLLC, located in downtown West Palm Beach. Ms. Pagán is a Past President of the Palm Beach County Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. She was the Co-Chair of the MacArthur’s Foundation Palm Beach County Racial and Ethnic Disparity Team and is a year’s long member of the 15th Judicial Circuit’s Pro Bono Committee. Additionally, Ms. Pagán has also served as a volunteer Guardian Advocate for Baker Act cases in the 15th Judicial Circuit since 2012. Ms. Pagan has served on the PBCHBA Board for 5 years and was the recipient of the 2024 Member of the Year Award. 

Gina Fraga, Immediate Past President
Mrs. Fraga has devoted her entire legal career to defending the rights of our immigrants by focusing her practice in the complex and ever-changing field of Immigration and Nationality Law. She is a Partner at Acosta & Fraga Law, P.L.L.C., where she handles a heavy case load in areas such as deportation defense, family immigration, business immigration, equestrian-related immigration visas, self-petitions on behalf of victims and children, among others. She is a proud “double Gator” who received both her bachelor’s degree with honors and law degree from the University of Florida.

In addition to serving as a Board member of the Palm Beach Hispanic Bar Association since 2019, she has also been an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association where she chairs the AILA South Florida Chapter DMV Committee, serves as a member-at-large of the USCIS West Palm Beach Committee and previously served in the Unlicensed Practice of Law Committee. She is passionate about providing pro bono legal representation to children and women who are the victims of abuse or neglect and serves her community by providing outreach, education and assistance to charitable organizations such as Americans for Immigrant Justice, the Legal Aid Society of PBC and the Guatemalan-Maya Center in Lake Worth, Florida. Due to her outstanding work in the community she was awarded the 2019 Public Citizen Award from the National Association of Social Workers Palm Beach Chapter. She enjoys going back “home” to recharge at the beach in her little island of Puerto Rico where she was born and raised.