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2 unusual facts about Juan R. Melecio-Machuca

Juan R. Melecio-Machuca

He was subsequently appointed a Superior Court judge by Governor Rafael Hernández Colón.

Puerto Rico Office of Legislative Services

Another two, Nélida Jiménez-Velázquez and Teresa Medina Monteserrín, have moved on to the Puerto Rico Court of Appeals, and three have become Superior Court judges, including Juan R. Melecio-Machuca, Carlos García-Jaunarena and Elba Rosa Rodríguez-Fuentes.

Implications of Puerto Rico's current political status

In addition, in 1984 one of the judges of the federal district court, Chief Judge Juan R. Torruella, a native of the island, was appointed to serve in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit with jurisdiction over Puerto Rico, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, and New Hampshire.

Juan R. Torruella

In 1984, President Ronald Reagan elevated Judge Torruella to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

The film is dedicated to Father Gerardo Whelan, C.S.C. who from 1969 to 1973 was the director of Colegio Saint George (Saint George's College), the private English-language school in Santiago that the film's director attended as a boy.

Saint George's College, Santiago

Machuca, A 2004 movie connected to events at the College