Dr. Henry Flores is a Full Professor of Political Science and Dean of the Graduate School at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. During his tenure, Dr. Flores has served as the departmental chairperson for two terms and directed both Graduate Programs in Public Administration and Political Science. He has taught classes at both the graduate and undergraduate levels in Public Administration, Public Policy, Urban Politics, and Research Methods and Statistics.

Since 1986 Dr. Flores has served as an “Expert Witness” in more than 50 federal voting and civil rights lawsuits including serving as the statistical testifying expert in NAACP v Harris, 2000 which focused on presidential challenge in Florida. Throughout his professional life Professor Flores has been active with many community-based organizations such as COPS, Metro Alliance in San Antonio, LULAC, NAACP, MALDEF, the Southwest Voting Registration Project, and the Esperanza Environmental Justice Project. During the 2001 State Redistricting efforts Dr. Flores was a Senior Policy Analyst with the William C. Velasquez Research Institute providing research on the racially polarized nature of the Texas electorate.
Dr. Flores is the author of The Evolution of the Liberal Democratic State With a Case Study of Latinos in San Antonio (2003), Texas and coauthor of another volume entitled Mexican Americans and the Law (2004) with three other colleagues.

A native San Antonian, Dr. Flores graduated from Central Catholic Marianist High School and St. Mary’s University receiving his BA, cum laude, in 1974 majoring in Political Science and with a minor in English. He received both his M.A. (1975) and Ph.D. (1981) from the University of California, Santa Barbara in Political Science with emphases in American Politics, Political Theory, Public Administration, and Multivariate Statistical Analysis.