Carmen Consuelo Cerezo

Carmen Consuelo Cerezo (née Vargas) (b. 1940) was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico in the 1980, becoming the first female federal judge in Puerto Rico. In the 1990's she served for several years as Puerto Rico's first female Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court. Prior to her federal appointment, she served as a state court judge. President George W. Bush recently appointed a second female judge, Federal district court judge Aida Delgado.

She is married to attorney, former state legislator and political analyst Benny Frankie Cerezo and is the mother of one son, a partner in a Miami law firm, and one daughter.

External links

* [http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=408 Profile of Judge Cerezo] from Federal Judicial Center