Romulo L. Diaz, JR. serves as the City Solicitor of Philadelphia, following appointment by Mayor John F. Street and unanimous confirmation by City Council on June 16, 2005. The City Solicitor is the City of Philadelphia’s chief legal officer, the head of the City’s Law Department, and a member of the Mayor’s Cabinet. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Diaz was Chair of the Commercial and Regulatory Law Group of the City’s Law Department, which he joined in March 2002. He previously held numerous legal, management and policy positions at increasing levels of trust and responsibility in the federal government, including assistant administrator for management at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Deputy Chief of Staff and Counselor to the Secretary of Energy. He received the Secretary of Energy’s Gold Award for coordinating the Department of Energy’s reform efforts that streamlined the Department’s regulations and paperwork burden. He chaired several international groups, including NATO’s Petroleum Planning Committee from 1992-1995 during a major realignment of the North Atlantic Alliance. Mr. Diaz received his J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law and B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. He is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, the District of Columbia and Texas. He is a Charter Fellow of the Federal Bar Association; Treasurer of the Hispanic Bar Association of Pennsylvania; and a Director of Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, the Sapphire Fund and the Pan American Association of Philadelphia.