Clemente Ruiz Nazario

Clemente Ruiz Nazario was the first Puerto Rican appointed as a District Judge in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, which is the federal court for Puerto Rico. Since his appointment, all other appointments have been of Puerto Rican men and women. Nominated as the next-to-last fixed-term judge in the District of Puerto Rico, he was joined by a second judge as Puerto Rico's federal caseload increased, Judge Hiram Rafael Cancio, who after Ruiz Nazario's resignation in December 1966, was appointed as Puerto Rico's first Article III lifetime federal judge.

The main Clemente Ruiz Nazario United States Courthouse in San Juan, adjacent to the Federico Degetau Federal Building in Hato Rey, is named after him.

References

Guillermo A. Baralt, History of the Federal Court in Puerto Rico: 1899-1999 (2004) (also published in Spanish as Historia del Tribunal Federal de Puerto Rico)

Preceded by Thomas H. Roberts	Judge, United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico 1952–1966	Succeeded by Juan B. Fernandez-Badillo

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Name	Ruiz Nazario, Clemente
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