Before her appointment to the Puerto Rico Court of Appeals, she served as Chief of Staff of the Puerto Rico Senate from 2013 to 2016. The Senate Judiciary Committee rendered a report endorsing her appointment and she was unanimously confirmed by the Senate. In 2016, Governor Alejandro García Padilla nominated Méndez-Miró as judge to the Puerto Rico Court of Appeals. Judicial career Puerto Rico Court of Appeals
In 2010, she became general counsel and director of the Legal Affairs Office, where she served until 2013, counseling and litigating significant legal claims, disputes and disciplinary actions before several state and federal forums. In that capacity, she advised the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico and the director of the Office of Courts Administration on public and administrative policies, projects and programs, such as adult and juvenile drug courts, specialized domestic violence courts, self-represented litigant (pro se) centers, justice for the elderly, unified family and juvenile courts, court improvement project, protocol for access to courts for homeless people, among others. In 2008, she went on to serve at the Puerto Rico judicial branch, as director of judicial programs of the Office of Court Administration. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and oversaw litigation of employment cases, among other related tasks. At the department, she provided legal counsel the attorney general regarding compliance with local and federal employment laws and regulation, litigated charges filed before the U.S. In 2006 Méndez-Miró began a career in public service by working as assistant attorney general for Human Resources at the Puerto Rico Department of Justice. There, she worked at the labor and employment department until 2006, litigating cases before both the federal and state courts and providing legal counsel in matters related to employment discrimination, harassment, wages and hours, ERISA, immigration, employment contracts and labor aspects of corporate reorganizations, among others. After swearing in as an attorney in 2001, she became an associate at O’Neill & Borges.
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Méndez-Miró began her professional career in the private practice as a law clerk at Litigation Department of the San Juan law firm Goldman, Antonetti, & Córdova. In 2001, she earned a Juris Doctor form the University of Puerto Rico School of Law. Later, she obtained a Master of Arts degree in romance languages and literatures from Princeton University. Méndez-Miró earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in liberal arts and comparative literature, magna cum laude, from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus in 1996.
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