By The Star Staff
The Puerto Rico Supreme Court is preparing an activity to say goodbye to Associate Justice Edgardo Rivera García who turns 70 on Jan. 3, the age the island Constitution mandates he must leave office.
The special session to say goodbye to Rivera García, who was appointed in 2010 by former Governor Luis Fortuño, is slated for Friday, Dec. 13.
The mandatory resignation comes as a new government starts in January under Governor-elect Jenniffer González Colón, who now has the opportunity to appoint Rivera García’s successor.
There are rumors that Rivera García may become the next secretary of Justice, but the STAR could not confirm the information.
Rivera García was nominated as an associate justice on Aug. 3, 2010. He succeeded Associate Justice Efraín Rivera Pérez. Less than a month later, on Sept. 1, 2010, he was confirmed by the Senate presided over by Thomas Rivera Schatz, who will occupy that position again in January.
In 1994, Gov. Pedro Rosselló nominated Rivera Pérez as assistant district attorney of the District Court. He was later promoted to district attorney II of the Department of Justice, functions that he performed in the District Attorney’s Office of Carolina, in which he also held the position of interim district attorney and director of the Criminal Investigations Unit.
In 1997, Senate President Charlie Rodríguez appointed Rivera Pérez to head the Office of Legislative Advisors. In 2000, he was nominated and confirmed as a Superior Court judge, a position he held for nine years in the judicial region of Arecibo, Caguas, and in special appointments in the judicial region of Utuado.
Rivera Pérez was appointed as an Appeals Court judge in April 2009, before being named to the Supreme Court as an associate judge the following year.
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