Salvador Casellas
| Salvador Casellas | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| District of Puerto Rico | |
| Title: | Senior Judge |
| Position: | Seat #7 |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Bill Clinton |
| Active: | 9/29/1994 - 6/10/2005 |
| Senior: | 6/10/2005 - Present |
| Preceded by: | Jaime Pieras |
| Succeeded by: | Aida Delgado-Colon |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | June 10, 1935 |
| Home State: | San Juan, PR |
| Bachelors: | Georgetown U., B.S.F.S, 1957 |
| Law School: | Puerto Rico U. Law, LL.B., 1960 |
| Grad. School: | Harvard Law, LL.M., 1961 |
| Military service: | Army, 1961-1962, Army Reserve, 1963-1965 |
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Early life and education
Casellas graduated from Georgetown with a Bachelor's in Foriegn Studies in 1957 and graduated from Puerto Rico Law with his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1960 and later graduated from Harvard Law with his Master of Laws degree in 1961.[1]
Military service
Casellas served in the U.S. Army from 1961 to 1962 on active duty and in the U.S. Army Reserve in the JAG Corps from 1963 to 1965. He participated in ROTC at Georgetown and was the Distinguished Military Graduate of his class.[1][2]
Professional career
Casellas was a private practice attorney licensed in Puerto Rico from 1962 to 1972 and from 1977 too 1994. Casellas was also a Secretary of the Treasury for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico from 1973 to 1976.[1][2]
Judicial career
District of Puerto Rico
On the recommendation of the Puerto Rican at-large Congressional delegation, Acosta was nominated by Bill Clinton on June 21, 1994 to a seat vacated by Jaime Pieras as Piearas assumed senior status. Casellas was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September 28, 1994 on a majority voice vote and received commission on September 29, 1994[3] Casellas was succeeded in this position by Aida Delgado-Colon.
Awards and associations
Awards
- Commander's Medal, Second United States Army, 1990
- Puerto Rico National Guard Medal, 1992[2]
Associations
- Director of the Ana G Mendez Educational Foundation, 1980-1983
- Director of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, 1984-1987
- Director of the Luis Munoz Marin Foundation, 1984-1994, Chairman, 1984-1987
- Director of the Puerto Rico Bar Association Foundation, 1985-1988
- Director of the Puerto Rico Legal Aid Society, 1992-1993
- Director of the Committee on Economic Development, 1983-1994
- Director of the Centros Sor Isolina Ferre, 1989-1994
- Director of the Alliance for a Drug Free Puerto Rico, 1993-1994
- Director of the Angel Ramos Foundation, 1993-Current[2]
See also
External links
References
| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: Jaime Pieras |
District of Puerto Rico 1994–2005 Seat #7 |
Succeeded by: Aida Delgado-Colon |
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| 1993 |
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| 1994 |
Baer • Barkett • Batts • Beaty • Benavides • Bennett • Berrigan • Biery • Block • Borman • Breyer • Briones • Bryson • Bucklo • Burgess • Burrage • Cabranes • Calabresi • Carr • Casellas • Castillo • Chatigny • Chin • Cindrich • Coar • Collins • Cooper • Cote • Currie • Davis • Dominguez • Downes • Duval • Friedman • Furgeson • Garcia • Gertner • Gettleman • Gillmor • Gilmore • Gleeson • Haggerty • Hamilton • Hannah • Hawkins • Henry • Holmes • Hood • Hull • Hurley • Jack • Jones • Jones • Kaplan • Katz • Kern • Kessler • Koeltl • Lisi • Manning • McKee • McLaughlin • Melancon • Miles-LaGrange • Moore • Motz • Murphy • O'Malley • O'Meara • Oliver • Paez • B. Parker • F. Parker • R. Parker • Perry • Ponsor • Pooler • Porteous • Rendell • Riley • Robertson • Rogers • Ross • Russell • Sands • Sarokin • Scheindlin • Silver • Squatrito • Stewart • Sullivan • Tatel • Thompson • Timlin • Urbina • Vanaskie • Vance • Walls • Wells • Williams | ||
| 1995 |
Arterton • Atlas • Black • Blake • Briscoe • Tena Campbell • Todd Campbell • Chesney • Cole • Collier • Daniel • Davis • Dennis • Dlott • Donald • Duffy • Economus • Evans • Fallon • Folsom • Gaughan • Goodwin • Heartfield • Hunt • Illston • Jones • King • Kornmann • Lawson • Lenard • Lucero • Lynch • McKinley • Moody • Moore • Moskowitz • Murphy • Murtha • Nugent • O'Toole • Orlofsky • Pogue • Sessions • C. Smith • O. Smith • Stein • Thornburg • Tunheim • Wallach • Wardlaw • Webber • Whaley • Winmill • Wood | ||
| 1996 |
Broadwater • Clevert • Fenner • Gershon • Gottschall • Greenaway • Hinkle • Jones • Kahn • Laughrey • Lemmon • Marten • Miller • Molloy • Montgomery • Pregerson • Rakoff • Sargus • Tashima • Thomas • Zapata | ||
| 1997 |
Adelman • Bataillon • Breyer • Caputo • Casey • Chambers • Clay • Damrell • Droney • Friedman • Gajarsa • Garland • Gilman • Gold • Gwin • Hall • Hayden • Hull • Ishii • Jenkins • Kauffman • Kennedy • Kimball • Kollar-Kotelly • Lazzara • Marbley • Marcus • Middlebrooks • Miller • Moon • Pratt • Rendell • Sippel • Siragusa • Snyder • Thrash | ||
| 1998 |
Aiken • Barbier • Barzilay • Berman • Buttram • Carter • Collins • Dawson • Dimitrouleas • Fletcher • Fogel • Frank • Graber • Hellerstein • Herndon • James • Johnson • Kane • Kelly • G. King • R. King • Lasnik • Lee • Lemelle • Lindsay • Lipez • Manella • Matz • McCuskey • McKeown • McMahon • Mickle • Mollway • Mordue • Moreno • Morrow • Munley • Murphy • Pallmeyer • Pauley • Polster • Pooler • Rawlinson • Ridgway • R. Roberts • V. Roberts • Sack • Scott • Seitz • Seymour • Shea • Silverman • Sleet • Sotomayor • Steeh • Story • Straub • Tagle • Tarnow • Trauger • Traxler • Tyson • Wardlaw • Whelan • Young | ||
| 1999 |
Alsup • Barry • Brown • Buchwald • Cooper • Eaton • Ellison • Feess • Fisher • Gould • Guzman • Haynes • Hibbler • Hochberg • Hurd • Huvelle • Jordan • Katzmann • Kennelly • Linn • Lorenz • Lynn • Marrero • Murguia • Pannell • Pechman • Pepper • Phillips • Schreier • Stewart • Underhill • Ward • Williams • Wilson | ||
| 2000 |
Ambro • Antoon • Battani • Berzon • Bolton • Brady • Bye • Cavanaugh • Daniels • Darrah • Dawson • Dyk • Fuentes • Garaufis • Garcia-Gregory • Gregory • Hamilton • Huck • Hunt • Lawson • Lefkow • Lynch • Martin • McLaughlin • Moody • Murguia • Paez • Pisano • Presnell • Rawlinson • Reagan • Schiller • Singal • Steele • Surrick • Swain • Tallman • Teilborg • Tucker • Whittemore | ||
