Enrico "Rico" Valdez is an attorney with the Property and Casualty Counsel team at USAA in San Antonio, Texas. He is responsible for providing solution-oriented counsel on all matters affecting USAA's P&C business, from product conception through delivery and fulfillment.

Before joining USAA he worked for the Bexar County District Attorney's Office for 21 years where he served as the Appellate & Post-conviction Litigation Division Chief for my last 9 years. In addition to his duties and responsibilities as an Assistant District Attorney, he also worked as an Adjunct Professor at St. Mary's University School of Law and San Antonio College. He began his legal career as an associate attorney with Vial, Hamilton, Koch, and Knox in Dallas, Texas where he  specialized in insurance defense litigation.

He received his B.A. in Government from the University of Texas and my J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law. He is licensed to practice law in Texas and am admitted to practice law before the United States Supreme Court.