in the process of constructing the Texas-Mexico border wall. Awards and honors 2008: Henry B. Gonzalez Civil Rights Award 2008: Provost's Hispanic Heritage Award, University of Texas-Pan American 2003: Alumna of Distinction, University of the Incarnate Word 1994: Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing 1994: "A" Proficiency Designator, United States Army Medical Department References Handbook of Texas Online: Nuevo Santander Jose Esparza (1856-1926) El Calaboz, Texas Apache Indians Land Grants External links Highlights in the History of the Army Nurse Corps: appendices Texas State Guard Medical Brigade (MRC), Recent Information, "LTC Tamez Sworn In" "Filling a Void, Tamez Sworn in as Medical Brigade Commander". Mid-Valley Town Crier, October 28, 2008 "Eloisa ... Opens Her Gates To Border Fence Surveyors", Rio Grande Guardian, April 22, 2008 "Holes in the Wall". Melissa del Bosque, The Texas Observer, February 22, 2008 "Holes in the Wall - Texas Border Wall Bypassing Wealthy Residents With Bush Admin Ties", Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! "Dispatches from the Border Wall", Melisssa del Bosque, The Texas Observer, February 22, 2008 Dallas News, 07:55 AM CST on Thursday, January 10, 2008. "Border landowners face legal battle in fence plan. U.S. preparing cases; opponents say ancestral rights are at stake" ABC News: "Government May Sue over Border Fence" Infoshop News, Sunday, January 20 2008 "Indigenous Alliance in solidarity with Apaches at Texas border" Latina Lista.net "Homeland Security Sues Lipan Apache Eloisa Tamez for Land for Border Wall" "Texas Border Mayors Sue Homeland Secretary Chertoff", Cox News Service, May 17, 2008 "South Texas Groups Sue DHS to Restore Environmental Laws along the Border", Lone Star Chapter Sierra Club, May 30, 2008 "Border Fence Lawsuit to be Filed Friday; County Also Joins TBC Action", May 27, 2008 "Lipan Apache - Stop the Border Wall Construction", Apache Times, December 23, 2008 "Letter to Obama, regarding the Border Wall" (opinion page) "Movements Afoot to Demolish the U.S.-Mexico Border Wall", Kent Paterson, Mexidata.info "Border wall appealed to U.S. Supreme Court", December 10, 2008 Copy of Lawsuit: Eloisa Garcia Tamez, Benito J. Garcia, Plaintiffs vs. Michael Chertoff, Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, et al., Defendants 1935 births Living people American nursing administrators Hispanic and Latino American people People from Cameron County, Texas People from San Benito, Texas University of Texas at Austin alumni University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio alumni Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing Nursing researchers United States Army