| | After the November elections, the board in 2014 elected three new officers, with Hilario Cavazos as the temporary board president to succeed Cynthia Mares (formerly Cynthia Jackson), but Cavazos' defeat at the polls a few weeks later in the runoff contest removed him from the ranks of the trustees. During his short tenure as board president, Cavazos was served a temporary restraining order initiated by fellow trustee [[Mercurio Martinez]], a former county judge for Webb County, to block the board from reviewing the employment contracts of two employees accused of engaging in sexual relations on campus.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lmtonline.com/front-news/article_f4003f57-470b-59f9-87bf-7aea5be2e619.html|author=Judith Rayo and Philip Balli|title=Trustee vs. trustee: Temporary restraining order filed in personnel matter|publisher=''The Laredo Morning Times'' |date=December 14, 2014|pages=1, 19A|accessdate=September 14, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lmtonline.com/front-news/article_d2c234b6-469e-50ac-8b29-cb4464cfd412.html|title=Board takes no action: Contract evaluation postponed for now|work=Laredo Morning Times|date=December 23, 2014|author=Judith Rayo|page=1|accessdate=September 8, 2015}}</ref> Hilario Cavazos accused President Maldonado of "covering up a scandal, and he didn't do anything about it. I owed it to the public to try to correct this."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lmtonline.com/front-news/article_b40bf44e-117c-5a2a-a5cd-7f1236db16b3.html|title=Board defers review again: Maldonado's evaluation date uncertain|author=Kendra Ablaza|publisher=''The Laredo Morning Times''|date=December 28, 2014|pages=1, 4A|accessdate=August 27, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lmtonline.com/front-news/article_7392ba6e-6c81-5020-990b-a3eefbbabb97.html|title=Trustee's Temporary Restraining Order amended: Maldonado's evaluation meeting to proceed|author=Judith Rayo|date=December 22, 2015|publisher=''The Laredo Morning Times''|page=1|accessdate=August 27, 2015}}</ref> In April 2015, Maldonado banned Cavazos from being on the LCC campus for fourteen days because of what Maldonado termed the former trustee's disruptive behavior at a public meeting on January 22.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lmtonline.com/news/local/article_7c17f356-ea8d-11e4-baef-277d07f85906.html|title=Cavazos banned for 14 days|author=Judith Rayo|publisher=''The Laredo Morning Times''|date=April 24, 2015|pages=1, 11A|accessdate=August 27, 2015}}</ref> | | After the November elections, the board in 2014 elected three new officers, with Hilario Cavazos as the temporary board president to succeed Cynthia Mares (formerly Cynthia Jackson), but Cavazos' defeat at the polls a few weeks later in the runoff contest removed him from the ranks of the trustees. During his short tenure as board president, Cavazos was served a temporary restraining order initiated by fellow trustee [[Mercurio Martinez]], a former county judge for Webb County, to block the board from reviewing the employment contracts of two employees accused of engaging in sexual relations on campus.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lmtonline.com/front-news/article_f4003f57-470b-59f9-87bf-7aea5be2e619.html|author=Judith Rayo and Philip Balli|title=Trustee vs. trustee: Temporary restraining order filed in personnel matter|publisher=''The Laredo Morning Times'' |date=December 14, 2014|pages=1, 19A|accessdate=September 14, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lmtonline.com/front-news/article_d2c234b6-469e-50ac-8b29-cb4464cfd412.html|title=Board takes no action: Contract evaluation postponed for now|work=Laredo Morning Times|date=December 23, 2014|author=Judith Rayo|page=1|accessdate=September 8, 2015}}</ref> Hilario Cavazos accused President Maldonado of "covering up a scandal, and he didn't do anything about it. I owed it to the public to try to correct this."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lmtonline.com/front-news/article_b40bf44e-117c-5a2a-a5cd-7f1236db16b3.html|title=Board defers review again: Maldonado's evaluation date uncertain|author=Kendra Ablaza|publisher=''The Laredo Morning Times''|date=December 28, 2014|pages=1, 4A|accessdate=August 27, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lmtonline.com/front-news/article_7392ba6e-6c81-5020-990b-a3eefbbabb97.html|title=Trustee's Temporary Restraining Order amended: Maldonado's evaluation meeting to proceed|author=Judith Rayo|date=December 22, 2015|publisher=''The Laredo Morning Times''|page=1|accessdate=August 27, 2015}}</ref> In April 2015, Maldonado banned Cavazos from being on the LCC campus for fourteen days because of what Maldonado termed the former trustee's disruptive behavior at a public meeting on January 22.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lmtonline.com/news/local/article_7c17f356-ea8d-11e4-baef-277d07f85906.html|title=Cavazos banned for 14 days|author=Judith Rayo|publisher=''The Laredo Morning Times''|date=April 24, 2015|pages=1, 11A|accessdate=August 27, 2015}}</ref> |