Erick Kolthoff-Caraballo (born September 15, 1961 in
San Juan, Puerto Rico
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) is an associate justice of the
Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
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 ...
.
He obtained a bachelor's degree in business administration from the
Interamerican University of Puerto Rico
The Inter American University of Puerto Rico (Spanish: ''Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico''; often abbreviated to ''UIPR'' or ''Inter'') is a private Christian university with its main campus in San Germán, Puerto Rico. It also has c ...
, an M.A. in Criminal Justice (with Summa-laude qualification) from the same institution, and the Juris Doctor degree from the
University of Puerto Rico School of Law
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, where he graduated in 1988.
Prior to being appointed on February 4, 2009 to the Supreme Court by Governor
Luis Fortuño
Luis Guillermo Fortuño Burset (born 31 October 1960) is a Puerto Rican politician who served as the governor of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States, from 2009 to 2013.
Fortuño served as the first secretary of econom ...
he had been appointed by former Governor
Aníbal Acevedo Vilá
Aníbal Salvador Acevedo Vilá (born 13 February 1962) is a Puerto Rican politician and lawyer. He served as the governor of Puerto Rico from 2005 to 2009. He is a Harvard University alumnus (LL.M. 1987) and a graduate of the University of Puer ...
as a Superior Court judge, for which he was unanimously confirmed by the Senate. Previously, he served as staff director of the
Senate of Puerto Rico
The Senate of Puerto Rico ( es, Senado de Puerto Rico) is the upper house of the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico, the territorial legislature of Puerto Rico. The Senate, together with the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico, control t ...
's Nominations Technical Evaluation Unit, as an attorney for the Courts Administration of Puerto Rico, the
Puerto Rico Telecommunications Regulatory Board, and an attorney in private practice. He is the son of a former Superior Court judge, his namesake, appointed in 1969 by then Governor
Luis A. Ferré.
He is the son of
Erick Kolthoff-Benners, the first
Afro-Puerto Rican member of the islands' judiciary.
See also
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List of Hispanic and Latino American jurists
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German immigration to Puerto Rico
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References
1961 births
Living people
Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
Hispanic and Latino American judges
Interamerican University of Puerto Rico alumni
Puerto Rican judges
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