Joe Carreón is a proud product of northwest Dallas where he attended Dallas ISD schools David G. Burnet, Julian T. Saldivar, and E.H. Cary. 

Through the hard work of his parents and community, he became the first in his family to graduate from high school and later college.  He earned his high school diploma from Dallas Jesuit and received his Bachelor of Arts degrees in Political Science and Spanish from Southern Methodist University (SMU). Following college, Joe earned a master’s degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and a law degree from the SMU Dedman School of Law.