Angel Colón-Pérez (born 1977) is an associate justice of the

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whose nomination was announced by Governor

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on April 8, 2016. Born in Aibonito, he studied at the José Gándara High School in his hometown. He has a

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from the

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and is a graduate of the

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, where he was an editor of its law review. He subsequently served as a law clerk to then-Associate Justice Miriam Naveira. Afterwards, he worked for Chief Justice Federico Hernández Denton, who upon Colón-Pérez' appointment as a Superior Court judge, never assigned him a courtroom in order to keep him as his chief of staff in the Supreme Court. He also served as executive director of the Bar Exam Committee. For several years he was an adjunct professor at Interamerican Law School. In 2013, Governor García Padilla appointed him as his chief legal and legislative counsel until his nomination to the High Court. At his confirmation hearing on June 22, 2016 at the

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he was praised by the Judiciary Committee Chairman, Senator Miguel Pereira Castillo, Senate President Eduardo Bhatia and Minority Leader Larry Seilhamer. He was confirmed by the Senate on June 28, 2016. He was sworn in on August 31, 2016.

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