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Rafael Alonso-Alonso (September 9, 1939
San Juan, Puerto Rico San Juan (, , ; Spanish for "Saint John") is the capital city and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2020 census, it is the 57th-largest city under the juri ...
– June 10, 2022
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) was a former Associate Justice of the
Puerto Rico Supreme Court The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico ( es, Tribunal Supremo de Puerto Rico) is the highest court of Puerto Rico, having judicial authority to interpret and decide questions of Puerto Rican law. The Court is analogous to one of the state supreme c ...
. Rafael Alonso Alonso was a Cum Laude graduate of the
University of Puerto Rico The University of Puerto Rico ( es, Universidad de Puerto Rico, UPR) is the main public university system in the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. It is a government-owned corporation with 11 campuses and approximately 58,000 students and 5,3 ...
and obtained his J.D. Cum Laude from the University of Puerto Rico Law School. Graduated from the Institute of Judicial Administration of the
New York Law School New York Law School (NYLS) is a private law school in Tribeca, New York City. NYLS has a full-time day program and a part-time evening program. NYLS's faculty includes 54 full-time and 59 adjunct professors. Notable faculty members include E ...
. Was commissioned as 2nd lieutenant in the
Army ROTC The Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (AROTC) is the United States Army component of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. It is the largest Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) program which is a group of college and university-based offic ...
program. Prior to being appointed to the bench by Governor
Rafael Hernández Colón Rafael Hernández Colón (October 24, 1936 – May 2, 2019) was a Puerto Rican politician who served as the governor of Puerto Rico from 1973 to 1977 and 1985 to 1993 for a total of three terms. An experienced politician, Hernández held the ...
, he served as director of the Office of Legislative Services of Puerto Rico from 1965 to 1968, as director of UPR's Graduate School of Public Administration from 1969 to 1972, and as president of the
Puerto Rico Planning Board The Puerto Rico Planning Board ( es, Junta de Planificación) created in the May 12, 1942 during Rexford G. Tugwell's governorship as the Puerto Rico Planning, Urbanization, and Zoning Board, is the only government agency in charge of centraliz ...
from 1973 to 1976. He served as Associate Justice from May 6, 1985, until his retirement from the court on July 14, 1995. Alonso died on June 10, 2022.


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*La Justicia en sus Manos by Luis Rafael Rivera, Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico Puerto Rican lawyers Lawyers from San Juan, Puerto Rico New York Law School alumni University of Puerto Rico alumni University of Puerto Rico faculty 1939 births 2022 deaths {{US-state-judge-stub