• District Court, D. Puerto Rico

  Judge

  2006 – present · 20 yrsAppointed by George W. Bush

Career

• Adjunct professor

  Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico School of Law

  2003 – 2004 · 1 yr

• U.S. Magistrate Judge

  U.S. District Court, District of Puerto Rico

  1993 – 2006 · 13 yrs

• acting federal public defender

  1991 – present · 35 yrs

• first assistant federal public defender

  1988 – 1993 · 5 yrs

• Assistant federal public defender

  District of Puerto Rico

  1982 – 1993 · 11 yrs

• director of research and investigations

  1981 – 1982 · 1 yr

• Department of Labor and Human Resources

  Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

  1980 – 1982 · 2 yrs

• legal investigator

  1980 – 1981 · 1 yr