Mildred Gail Pabón Charneco (born November 27, 1957) is a Puerto Rican judge serving as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico after being appointed to the post on February 4, 2009, by Governor Luis Fortuño. Graduated at the

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, where he obtained the degree of Bachelor of Science with the highest honors. In 1983 she earned her juris doctor from the

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. She filled the vacancy created by the death of Associate Justice

Jaime Fuster Jaime Benito Fuster Berlingeri (January 12, 1941 – December 3, 2007) was a politician who served as an Associate Justice to the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. Justice Fuster, along with Justice Liana Fiol Matta, was considered the leading li ...

in 2007. Pabón is the fourth woman to serve on the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico Prior to serving as associate justice, Pabón served for over nine years as a judge at the Puerto Rico Circuit Court of Appeals and as legislative counsel to Governor

Pedro Rosselló Pedro Juan Rosselló González, (; born April 5, 1944) is a Puerto Rican physician and politician who served as the governor of Puerto Rico from 1993 to 2001. He was President of the New Progressive Party from 1991 to 1999 and 2003 to 2008, a ...

. Prior to that, Pabón worked as a staff attorney at the

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and in private practice.

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