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United States, 31st Oct 2026 - Rossi Paola Vargas Daly is an attorney and published public health researcher whose professional record extends from clinical outcomes research and federal grant writing to criminal prosecution in New Mexico’s First Judicial District.

Paola Vargas Daly served as an Assistant District Attorney in New Mexico’s First Judicial District Attorney’s Office, managing the felony intake docket in Santa Fe County and later the full Rio Arriba County misdemeanor docket.The latter docket comprised domestic violence misdemeanors and DWI charges. She handled cases from initial filing through jury and bench trials or negotiated plea, screened cases, reviewed discovery, drafted plea agreements, and conducted preliminary examinations in Magistrate Court.

Before beginning her legal career, R. Paola Vargas Daly, lawyer and public health researcher, spent more than a decade in health policy research and nonprofit advocacy. She earned a Master of Science in Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with a concentration in women’s perinatal and reproductive health, in 2010. She subsequently served at the Lupus Foundation of America for more than six years, rising to Director and co-writing a a multi-million-dollar federal grant from the Office of Minority Health focused on reducing racial disparities in lupus diagnoses among young Black and Latina women. Her public health and legal experience reflects work involving populations that face barriers within institutional systems.

Her peer-reviewed publications appear in the Journal of Patient Reported Outcomes, Pediatric Rheumatology, Lupus, and the Journal of Medical Economics. Before her prosecutorial role, she clerked at the New Mexico Supreme Court. 

During law school at Loyola University Chicago, she practiced as a student attorney in the Health Justice Project, a medical-legal partnership in which she represented an asylum seeker and worked on cases such as Social Security Disability appeals. Her criminal prosecution record followed a legal education completed through a part-time weekend program while working and parenting, which she finished ranked first in her class and graduated magna cum laude.

This professional record brings together peer-reviewed research, federal grant development, judicial writing, and high-volume docket management. She has applied those skills across public health and legal settings.

About R. Paola Vargas Daly Lawyer

Paola Vargas Daly is an attorney and public health researcher with experience in criminal prosecution, judicial work, federal grant development, and health outcomes research. She earned her Juris Doctor magna cum laude and ranked first in her class at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. She also holds a Master of Science in Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. To learn more, visit Rossi Paola Vargas Daly’s professional profile through her official professional channels.