Armindo Cadilla Ginorio (January 11, 1906 – February 16, 1975), served as an associate justice of the
Puerto Rico Supreme Court from 1973 to 1975.
Born in
Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Arecibo (; ) is a city and municipality on the northern coast of Puerto Rico, on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, located north of Utuado and Ciales; east of Hatillo; and west of Barceloneta and Florida. It is about west of San Juan, the ...
on January 11, 1906, he studied law at the
University of Puerto Rico School of Law
The University of Puerto Rico School of Law is a law school in Puerto Rico. It is one of the professional graduate schools of University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus and the only law school in the University of Puerto Rico System. It ...
.
In 1963, he was appointed by Governor
Luis Muñoz Marín as a Superior Court Justice. In 1973, at the age of 67, he was appointed by Governor
Rafael Hernández Colón as an Associate Justice. After 10 years serving on the bench in Ponce, he won the admiration of former Associate Justice and Ponce native Rafael Hernández Matos, as well as his son Rafael, elected Governor in 1972.
Cadilla Ginorio's service on the Supreme Court was short-lived, since he died in
Río Piedras, Puerto Rico at the age of 69 on February 16, 1975, two years and two days after having joined the Court. He was buried at Cementerio Municipal de Arecibo (Viejo) in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
Sources
*La Justicia en sus Manos by Luis Rafael Rivera,
1906 births
1975 deaths
Associate justices of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
20th-century American lawyers
People from Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rican judges
20th-century American judges
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