Margarita Mercado Echegaray
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December 7, 1980
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 |
| 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]
