Attorney Hector Q. Martinez was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas.  Hector graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio, with a Humanities Degree in 1995, and soon went on to receive his law degree from St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas in 2001.  While in law school at St. Mary’s Hector was a member of the Scholar: St. Mary’s Law Review on Minority Issues, and served as a teaching assistant for mediation, negotiation, and a law in philosophy course, as well as being a member of the Hispanic Law Student Association.

Since 2001 Hector has also taught negotiation as an adjunct professor at St. Mary's University School of Law, in the Alternative Dispute Resolution section headed by L. Wayne Scott.   To expand his knowledge of negotiation, Hector attended the Harvard Law School, Program of Instruction for Lawyers Negotiation Workshop in 2003.