Jaime Sifre Dávila (November 24, 1887 – October 6, 1960) was an attorney and judge in Puerto Rico, ultimately serving as an associate justice and briefly as the eighth

chief justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico The chief justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico () is the Chief Justice, presiding officer of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. The post of chief justice was created by Article V of Constitution of Puerto Rico, Article V of the Constitution ...

. Sifre was born to Jaime Sifre Tarafa and Belén Dávila Santana in

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. In 1887, he obtained a Masters of Law (LLM) from

University of Michigan Law School The University of Michigan Law School (branded as Michigan Law) is the law school of the University of Michigan, a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Founded in 1859, the school offers Master of Laws (LLM), Master of Comparati ...

, graduating in 1908. He married Consuelo Cordova Davila on December 17, 1910, and had six children. He was appointed to the position of Associate Justice of the

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in August 1952. In 1957, he was appointed by Governor

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to succeed embattled A. Cecil Snyder as Chief Justice.Puerto Rico Raises Alumnus To Supreme Court After A Long Judiciary Career - Michigan alumnus, Volume 59
p. 100 He only served as chief justice for two months before his resignation. He died October 6, 1960, in

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. He is buried at the

Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery __NOTOC__ The Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery () is a colonial-era Catholic cemetery located in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is the final resting place of many of Puerto Rico's most prominent natives and residents. Construction began in ...

.Dr. Jaime Sifre Dávila
Rama Judicial PR, Retrieved September 16, 2011Quién es quién en Puerto Rico, Volume 4
p. 11 (1948)

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