Francisco Rebollo

Francisco Rebollo is a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. He served in that position from 1982 to 2008. Appointed by Governor Carlos Romero Barceló Rebollo served under Chief Justices Víctor Pons, José Andreu García, and Federico Hernández Denton, as well as Chief Justice Miriam Naveira, in addition to having served as acting Chief Justice himself.

Prior to joining the Supreme Court, he served as a Superior Court judge and as an attorney in private practice.

He resigned on July 31, 2008, prior to reaching the mandatory retirement age of 70 in August 2008. The vacancy he created will probably remain unfilled until a new governor is sworn in on January 2, 2009. Two prior vacancies, created by the mandatory retirement of Associate Justice Baltasar Corrada del Rio in April, 2005,and the death of Associate Justice Jaime Fuster in December, 2007, have remained unfilled due to an impasse between pro-commonwealth Governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá and pro-statehood Senate President Kenneth McClintock, who has announced that in addition to all other qualifications, the two vacancies created by both pro-statehood justices must be filled by nominees with similar ideological leanings.

External links

* [http://www.primerahora.com/noticia/otras_panorama/noticias/conservador_y_lento/44582 Supreme Court of Puerto Rico: "Conservative and Slow" ("Conservador y lento") - Primera Hora; Oscar J. Serrano; April 2, 2007]