Edgardo Rivera García (born January 3, 1955) is a Puerto Rican jurist who served as an associate justice of the
Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
The Supreme Court of 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 courts of the states of the United State ...
from 2010 to 2025. He was nominated by Governor
Luis Fortuño to succeed retired Justice
Efraín Rivera Pérez. Nominated on August 3, 2010, he was confirmed by the
Senate of Puerto Rico on September 8, 2010.
Early life
Born on January 3, 1955, in
San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan ( , ; Spanish for "Saint John the Baptist, John") is the capital city and most populous Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality in the Commonwealth (U.S. insular area), Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the ...
, Rivera García studied at the Liceo Interamericano Castro before obtaining his
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is the holder of a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts deg ...
degree from the
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus
The University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus (; UPR-RP, or informally La IUPI) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is the largest campus in the University of Puer ...
, in 1977. At the same university, he obtained a Masters in Public Administration in 1983 and a Juris Doctor in 1988. He is single and the father of three daughters.
Public service
He was appointed by Governor
Pedro Rosselló as a district attorney in 1994, resigning in 1997 to become then-Senate President
Charlie Rodriguez's Director of Legislative Affairs until 2000. That year, Rosselló nominated him to be a Superior Court Judge in the judicial region of Arecibo, Caguas and special designations in the judicial region of Utuado, a post he held until Fortuño appointed him to the court of appeals in 2009. On January 3, 2025 Rivera García retired from the court at age 70.
See also
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List of Hispanic and Latino American jurists
References
1955 births
21st-century American judges
Associate justices of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
Hispanic and Latino American judges
Living people
Puerto Rican judges
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