In 2009, Maldonado received the "Tejano Achiever Award" from the [[interest group]], the League of United Latin American Citizens] (LULAC. Maldonado is a member of the Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education<ref name=vitae/> and was the president of that organization in 1997.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tache.org/Portals/0/NewsArchive/2008/33rd_Annual_TACHE_Conference_Agenda_Feb-13-16-2008.pdf|title=1974-2008 Presidents and Conference Locations|publisher=tache.org|date=February 13, 2008|page=5|accessdate=July 10, 2015}}</ref> In 2005, as the LCC vice president, Maldonado was among fourteen people from Laredo appointed to the President's Laredo Advisory Council of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uthscsa.edu/hscnews/singleformat2.asp?newID=1601|title=14 leaders serve on President's Laredo Advisory Council|date=July 19, 2005|publisher=University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio|accessdate=September 15, 2015}}</ref> | In 2009, Maldonado received the "Tejano Achiever Award" from the [[interest group]], the League of United Latin American Citizens] (LULAC. Maldonado is a member of the Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education<ref name=vitae/> and was the president of that organization in 1997.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tache.org/Portals/0/NewsArchive/2008/33rd_Annual_TACHE_Conference_Agenda_Feb-13-16-2008.pdf|title=1974-2008 Presidents and Conference Locations|publisher=tache.org|date=February 13, 2008|page=5|accessdate=July 10, 2015}}</ref> In 2005, as the LCC vice president, Maldonado was among fourteen people from Laredo appointed to the President's Laredo Advisory Council of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uthscsa.edu/hscnews/singleformat2.asp?newID=1601|title=14 leaders serve on President's Laredo Advisory Council|date=July 19, 2005|publisher=University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio|accessdate=September 15, 2015}}</ref> |