Cristina María Rodríguez (born February 3, 1973) is the Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law at Yale Law School, the school's first tenured Hispanic professor. Before joining the faculty at Yale, Rodríguez was the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel within the United States Department of Justice. After earning her JD, she clerked for David S. Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals and Sandra Day O'Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court.