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Edgardo Rivera García (born January 3, 1955) is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. 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, Rivera García studied at the Liceo Interamericano Castro before obtaining his B.A. at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, 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 judge Edgardo Rivera García retired from the court at age 70.

See also

• List of Hispanic and Latino American jurists

References

1. "Nominan a Rivera García como juez del Supremo". Elnuevodia.com. August 4, 2010. Retrieved 2016-07-31.
2. "caribbeanbusinesspr -". Caribbean Business. December 31, 1969. Archived from the original on July 26, 2011. Retrieved 2016-07-31.

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Shadow U.S. Senators	Zoraida Buxó Melinda Romero
U.S. House	Pablo Hernández Rivera, Resident commissioner Roberto Lefranc Fortuño Ricky Rosselló 2 vacant, Shadow Representatives at-large
Executive government	Jenniffer González-Colón, Governor Verónica Ferraiuoli, Secretary of State (appointed) Janet Parra Mercado, Secretary of Justice (appointed) Nelson Pérez Méndez, Acting Secretary of the Treasury (appointed)
Senate	José Luis Dalmau, President Marially González Huertas, President pro tempore Javier Aponte Dalmau, Majority Leader Thomas Rivera Schatz, Minority Leader
House	Tatito Hernández, Speaker Conny Varela, Speaker pro tempore Angel Matos García, Majority Leader Carlos Johnny Méndez, Minority Leader
Supreme Court (appointed)	Maite Oronoz Rodríguez, Chief Justice Rafael Martínez Torres Mildred Pabón Erick Kolthoff Edgardo Rivera García Luis Estrella Martínez Roberto Feliberti Cintrón Angel Colón-Pérez 1 vacant, Associate Justices

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