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Miriam Naveira de Merly (July 28, 1934 – April 15, 2018) was a Puerto Rican
jurist A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyzes and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal education in law (a law degree) and often a Lawyer, legal prac ...
who served in 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 1985 to 2004. Naveira was the first woman to serve on the court as well as the first female
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 ...
(2003–2004). She was also the first female to serve as the Solicitor General of Puerto Rico (1973-1976).


Biography

Naveira was born in
Santurce, Puerto Rico Santurce (, meaning Saint George from Basque language, Basque ''Santurtzi'') is the largest and most populated Barrios of San Juan, Puerto Rico, barrio of the Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan, the cap ...
, in 1934. She obtained her bachelor's degree in
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from the
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and her
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degree from the
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at UPR Río Piedras. Naveira was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1985 by Governor
Rafael Hernández Colón Rafael Hernández Colón (October 24, 1936 – May 2, 2019) was a Puerto Rican politician who served as the governor of Puerto Rico from 1973 to 1977 and 1985 to 1993 for a total of three terms. An experienced politician, Hernández held the ...
, becoming the first woman on that court. During her tenure, Naveira was known as a pragmatic and moderate justice. After the retirement of Chief Justice
José Andreu García José Antonio Andreu García (September 18, 1937 – January 10, 2019) was a Puerto Rican jurist who served as the 13th chief justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico from 1992 to 2003. He was known for his moderate approach to constitutional ...
in 2003, Governor
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elevated Justice Naveira to the post of Chief Justice. However, her tenure lasted only seven months since the
Constitution of Puerto Rico The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico () is the primary organizing law for the unincorporated U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, describing the duties, powers, structures and functions of the government of Puerto Rico in nine art ...
states that Supreme Court Justices must retire at the age of seventy. Chief Justice Miriam Naveira retired in July 2004. She was succeeded by her colleague Federico Hernández Denton. Her daughter
Miriam Rodón Naveira Miriam Rodón Naveira (born April 2, 1963) is an environmental science, environmental scientist from San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, working at the federal government of the United States for which she was awarded a Awards and deco ...
is an environmental scientist working at the
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which was awarded a Silver Medal for Superior Service and a Suzanne Olive EEO and Diversity Award both by the EPA.''NASA Dryden funding supports Valley Fever research.''
Beth Hagenauer. Antelope Valley Times. 18 June 2013. She was also the first
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woman to serve as branch chief of the EPA's National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL) and later the first Hispanic woman to become deputy director of NERL's Environmental Sciences Division. Miriam Naveira died on April 15, 2018, at the age of 83. She was buried at the Puerto Rico Memorial Cemetery in
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.


See also

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List of Hispanic and Latino American jurists This is a list of Hispanic/Latino Americans who are or were judges, magistrate judges, court commissioners, or administrative law judges. If known, it will be listed if a judge has served on multiple courts. Other topics of interest * List ...
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List of Puerto Ricans This is a list of notable people from Puerto Rico which includes people who were born in Puerto Rico (Borinquen) and people who are of full or partial Puerto Rican people, Puerto Rican descent. Puerto Rican citizens are included, as the governm ...
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History of women in Puerto Rico The recorded history of Puerto Rican women can trace its roots back to the era of the ''Taíno'', the indigenous people of the Caribbean, who inhabited the island that they called ''Borinquen'' before the arrival of Spaniards. During the Span ...


References

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