Margarita Mercado Echegaray | |
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18th Solicitor General of Puerto Rico | |
In office January 13, 2013 –2017 | |
Governor | Alejandro García Padilla |
Succeeded by | Luis R. Román Negrón |
Personal details | |
Born | Margarita Mercado Echegaray December 7,1980 San Juan,Puerto Rico |
Political party | Popular Democratic Party |
Alma mater | University of Puerto Rico (BA) University of Puerto Rico School of Law (JD) Columbia Law School (LL.M.) |
Occupation | attorney |
Margarita Mercado Echegaray (Born December 7,1980) is an attorney,the former Solicitor General of Puerto Rico,and the youngest to hold such post. [1] [a] [b] Mercado has a bachelor's degree in political science and history of the Americas,and a juris doctor from the University of Puerto Rico School of Law. She also has a master of laws in constitutional law and civil rights from Columbia University. [4] [c] Before her appointment,Mercado served as a law clerk at the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit,and as a law clerk for Anabelle Rodríguez in the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. [4]
Mercado's most prominent cases includes the defense of the government of Puerto Rico against a lawsuit presented by the Puerto Rico Association of Members of the Judiciary. [5] The Association claims that Act 162 of 2013 is unconstitutional and that it minimizes the principle of judicial independence. [6] [7]