Supreme Court of Justice
Supreme Court Justices
Luis Henry Molina Peña
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice and Chairman of the Council of the Judiciary.
Law degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD). Postgraduate studies in Constitutional Law at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Luis Henry Molina Peña
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice and Chairman of the Council of the Judicial Branch
Law degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD). He completed postgraduate studies in Constitutional Law at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
He has an extensive track record in state institutions, highlighting his management, considered a regional model, in the creation and implementation at the forefront of the National School of the Judiciary (ENJ), an entity to which he arrived after winning the first public competition to elect the new director and held this position for 12 consecutive years, from 1998 to 2010.
His career in the legal field began at the age of 18 as a clerk at the Superior Land Court and later at the Dominican Center for Legal Advice and Research (Cedail), an institution of the Dominican Episcopal Conference. At the age of 20 he began his work as an associate lawyer of the firm Pellerano & Herrera where he worked in the litigation area and organized the structure of collection services of the office.
He served as executive director of the Commission for the Implementation of Criminal Procedure Reform (Conaej), as the first secretary general of the Ibero-American Network of Judicial Schools (Riaej), created by the Summit of Presidents of Ibero-American Supreme Courts and Tribunals; he has contributed to the creation of the networks of judicial schools of the Mexican states (Rejem) and the Argentine provinces (Reflejar), within the framework of the Euro Social Project of the European Union, he also served as Coordinator of the E-justice Project: Justice in the knowledge society, of the XIII Ibero-American Judicial Summit.
Luis Henry Molina Peña has been a professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra and at the Universidad Iberoamericana (Unibe), in the Master of Constitutional Law. After remaining for 12 years as director of the National School of the Judiciary (ENJ), and holding several public positions, in April 2019 he was appointed by the National Council of the Magistracy (CNM), president of the Supreme Court of Justice.
Blas Rafael Fernández Gómez
Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice, Counselor of the Judicial Branch
He received his law degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra. On June 24 of that year he was appointed...
Blas Fernandez Gomez
Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice, Counselor of the Judicial Branch
He received his law degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra. On June 24 of that year he was appointed by the Senate of the Republic as Justice of the Peace of the First District of the Municipality of La Vega and promoted on September 16, 1982 to Judge of the Civil, Commercial and Labor Chamber of the Court of First Instance of the Judicial District of La Vega.
He left the judiciary in April 1985 and dedicated himself to the professional practice, also occupying several functions, such as: Alternate to Syndic and Acting Municipal Syndic of La Vega, Regional Manager Central Zone of the Institute of Price Stabilization (INESPRE), Legal Consultant of the Banco de Reservas in La Vega, Regional Manager of the Passport Office of La Vega. Former President of the Rotary Club of La Concepción de La Vega, Inc. and of the Patronato Pro-Ayuda del Cuerpo de Bomberos de La Vega, Inc, Member of the School of Leaders of the Cursillos de Cristiandad Movement, Member of the Management Committee of the Monsignor Panal Foundation of La Vega, Professor of Law at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM), at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Tecnológica del Cibao (PUCATECI) and at the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU), Coordinator of the Needs Committee and Member of the Training Commission of the Escuela Nacional de la Judicatura (National School of the Judiciary).
He re-entered the Judiciary on June 10, 1998 as Judge of the Civil, Commercial and Labor Chamber of the Court of Appeals of the Judicial Department of La Vega, later becoming Second Judge Substitute for President, First Judge Substitute for President and Acting Presiding Judge of that Court on several occasions. In the month of June 2014, he was appointed Presiding Judge of the Third Chamber of the Civil and Commercial Chamber of the Court of Appeal of the National District and on several occasions Acting President of that Court, from where he became Judge of the Supreme Court of Justice in the month of July 2017. He was elected in the Council of the Judiciary since April 2021, representing the Judges of the Supreme Court of Justice.
First Civil and Commercial Chamber
Pilar Jiménez Ortiz
Presiding Justice of the First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice and Second Substitute for President
Doctor in Law, Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD) (1986). Master in Business Law and Economic Legislation, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (Pucmm) (1999).
Pilar Jiménez Ortiz
Presiding Justice of the First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice and Second Substitute for the Chief Justice
Doctor in Law, Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD) (1986). Master in Business Law and Economic Legislation, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (Pucmm) (1999). Postgraduate degree in Civil Procedure, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (2001). Justice of the Peace graduated from the National School of the Judiciary (2002).
Master in Civil Procedural Law, Pontifica Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (2008), Master in Constitutional Justice, Universidad de Costa Rica and Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (double degree) (2015).
His professional work also includes teaching at the National School of the Judiciary and at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (Pucmm). She began her career in the Judiciary in 2002 when she passed the first competitive examination for candidates for Justice of the Peace.
During her time in the judiciary she has been a justice of the peace for municipal affairs of Manganagua, National District (2002), in 2003 she was promoted to judge of first instance, serving as judge of the Third Chamber of the Civil and Commercial Chamber of the Court of First Instance of the National District, and president of the Civil Chamber during the period 2005-2012, when she was promoted to judge of the Second Chamber of the Civil and Commercial Chamber of the Court of Appeal of the National District; That same year she became judge of the Superior Land Court of the Central Department and presiding judge of the Third Chamber.
Justice Pilar Jiménez Ortiz was appointed judge of the Supreme Court of Justice in July 2017 by the National Council of the Magistracy (CNM) and since 2019, President of the Civil and Commercial Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice.
Samuel Arias Arzeno
Judge of the First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice.
Law Degree from Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU) (1990). His academic preparation includes an International Master's Degree in Conflict Resolution from the Universidad Oberta de Catalunya (2007).
Samuel Arias Arzeno
Judge of the First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice.
Law Degree from Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU) (1990). His academic preparation includes an International Master's Degree in Conflict Resolution from the Universidad Oberta de Catalunya (2007).
He has more than 20 years of teaching experience and is the former director of the Law School of the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM). His career has taken him between the administration of justice and the training of new legal professionals.
In his professional practice he has worked in the civil and commercial, labor, family, constitutional and intellectual property areas. Magistrate Arias Arzeno was the first representative of the judges of the Court of Appeals and equivalents before the Judicial Power Council (CPJ) in 2011. Coordinator of the National Judicial Summit (2016).
At the time of his appointment as a member of the Supreme Court of Justice in 2019, he was serving as Presiding Judge of the Third Chamber of the Civil and Commercial Chamber of the Court of Appeals of the National District.
He has published several articles, among which the following stand out: The Manual of Introduction to Alternative Dispute Resolution for aspiring justices of the peace; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Compilation; The Jurisprudence of Referrals: jurisprudential background of the Civil Chamber of the Court of Appeals of Santo Domingo; and the translation and adaptation of the booklet "Practical Guide for Divorced or Separated Parents" ( TheBexar Country Dispute Resolution Center of San Antonio Texas, USA), among others.
Justiniano Montero Montero
Justice of the First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice
Doctor in Law from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo. Master in Democratic Society, State and Law, from the University of the Basque Country; Master in Administrative Law and Municipal Management...
Justiniano Montero Montero
Justice of the First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice
D. in Law from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo. Master in Democratic Society, State and Law, Universidad del País Vasco; Master in Administrative Law and Municipal Management, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha; Master in Constitutional Law and Constitutional Justice: Fundamental Rights and Constitutional Processes, and Specialization in Judicial Law, both from the Escuela Nacional de la Judicatura; Specialization in International Relations, Universidad del País Vasco.
He was a private attorney from 1990 to 1998. Notary Public of the District. In 1998 he was appointed Justice of the Peace of the Second District of the National District. In 1999 Judge of the First Chamber of the Civil and Commercial Chamber of the Court of First Instance of the National District. In 2001, as First Substitute Judge of the President of the Civil and Commercial Chamber of the Court of First Instance of the National District and Presiding Judge of the First Chamber. Then, in 2003 he was appointed Judge of the Civil and Commercial Chamber of the Court of Appeals of Santo Domingo. Subsequently, in 2005, Judge of the Second Chamber of the Civil and Commercial Chamber of the Court of Appeals of the National District and in 2012, he was second judge and first substitute for the president of the Civil and Commercial Chamber of the Court of Appeals of the National District and Presiding Judge of the Second Chamber. In 2014, he was appointed on an interim basis as general director of Administration and Judicial Career, until, in 2018, he is promoted to Presiding Judge of the Civil and Commercial Chamber of the Court of Appeal of the National District. Finally, in April 2019, he was elected as Member Judge of the First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice. His professional career in the judicial career is 24 years.
Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, where he has taught the subjects of Contract Law, Obligations, Real Estate Law and Legal Practice; at the Universidad Iberoamericana, of the subjects Analysis of Legal Text, Judicial Law IV (Embargos) and Drafting of Private Judicial Law Acts; at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, of the subject La Sentencia y Los Incidentes, as well as the Master's Degrees in Civil Procedure, Legal Practice and Legal Liability, with a double degree at the University of Savoir-France, subjects of Contract Law, Civil Liability and Consumer Law. He has also collaborated as a teacher at the National School of the Judiciary (ENJ), in the subjects of Justice of the Peace Civil Jurisdictions, Procedure according to the Instances, and Civil Liability I and II for continuing education.
He is currently a member of the Ibero-American Commission on Judicial Ethics. He was recognized by the Commissioner of Support to the Reform and Modernization of the State for his participation in the Project Office Management for Eight Peace Courts of the National District, San Francisco and Moca (1st. stage) in 2000, recognition made by the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, for his academic collaboration. Honorary Member of the Dominican Association of Bailiffs (2016). National and international lecturer in several academic events.
Academic contributions: Work on the execution of pledge, according to Law 6186 and the Civil Code, Parallelism in the processes of Execution of Abbreviated and Ordinary Real Estate Seizure, Parallelism between the French and Dominican Referral.
Vanessa Elizabeth Acosta Peralta
Justice of the First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice
Graduated magna cum laude from Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (Unphu) in 1996. In 2002, she participated in the public competition to become a Justice of the Peace held by the Judiciary, and is from the second class of the training program for Justice of the Peace of the National School of the Judiciary.
Vanessa Elizabeth Acosta Peralta
Justice of the First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice
Graduated magna cum laude from Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (Unphu) in 1996. In 2002, she participated in the public competition to become a Justice of the Peace held by the Judiciary, and is from the second class of the training program for Justice of the Peace of the National School of the Judiciary.
She joined the Judicial Branch in 2003, and in her judicial career she has served as a judge in the following courts: Ordinary Peace Court of the Second District of the National District; Second Court of Instruction of the National District; Second Chamber of the Labor Court of the National District; First Chamber of the Labor Court of the National District and First Chamber of the Superior Administrative Court.
Master's Degree in Business Law and Economic Legislation from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (Pucmm), Administrative Law and Municipal Management from the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha in Spain.
In addition, he has participated in courses, diploma courses and seminars, among which the following stand out: Seminar on Preliminary Hearing Management Techniques; Management and Evaluation of Evidence in the three stages of Criminal Proceedings; Training Workshop on Techniques for the Reception of Evidence; Workshop on Grounds for Labor Resolutions; Diploma in Social Security, Judicial Ethics, Constitutional Law; Labor Criminal and Social Security Workshop; Litigation Techniques for Judges; Constitutional Law; Labor Procedural Law, Tax Law, among others.
She is the deputy coordinator of the Commission for Gender Equality of the Judiciary of the Dominican Republic and has participated in several projects to ensure improved access and functioning in the administration of justice without discrimination, under the perspective of gender and human rights.
Justice Acosta Peralta was appointed in April 2019 by the National Council of the Magistracy as chief justice of the Supreme Court of Justice, after being evaluated by the members of this constitutional body.
Second Chamber or Criminal Chamber
Francisco Antonio Jerez Mena
Presiding Justice of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice
Doctor in Law graduated from Universidad Central del Este (UCE). Master in Constitutional Law and Fundamental Rights and Freedoms and their Guarantees.
Francisco Antonio Jerez Mena
Presiding Justice of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice
Doctor in Law graduated from Universidad Central del Este (UCE). Master in Constitutional Law and Fundamental Rights and Freedoms and their Guarantees, with dual degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (Pucmm), Santiago, and the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain (2009).
He has served as judge of First Instance of the Judicial District of Sanchez Ramirez and judge of the Civil and Commercial Chamber of the Court of Appeals of the Judicial Department of La Vega.
He has been responsible for the successful implementation, for the first time in the country, of the Management Model of the Criminal Judicial Office of La Vega, whose project was sponsored by the Supreme Court of Justice and the United States Agency for International Development, whose experience has been internationally recognized, reaching the point of obtaining the first place in the Innovare International Award, granted in Brazil (2010).
Judge Jerez Mena is the only Dominican judge chosen by the United States Department of State, Washington D.C., to participate in the Visitor Leadership Program "Administration of Justice and the Rule of Law". United States Department Of State Bureau Of Educational and Cultural Affairs (2009). She completed a postgraduate degree in Mediation and Negotiation at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain (2015).
He served as presiding judge of the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeals of La Vega. In 2011 he assumed as judge of the First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice until 2016 when he became president of the same, until April 2019 when he was ratified by the National Council of the Magistracy and appointed by the Plenary of the Supreme Court of Justice as President of the Second Chamber.
His postgraduate and master's degree studies include First Diploma in Labor Law, Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo-CURSA; postgraduate studies in Corporate and Commercial Law and postgraduate studies in Civil Procedure, both at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra; Specialization in Judicial Law, Escuela Nacional de la Judicatura and master's degree in Constitutional Law and Fundamental Rights and Freedoms and their guarantees, dual degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra and Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
María Garabito Ramírez
Justice of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice
Dr. Maria G. Garabito Ramirez, is a doctrinaire judge who has served the country in the Public Administration (Legislative, Executive and Judicial), teaching and cultural development in her community, San Juan de la Maguana.
María Garabito Ramírez
Justice of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice
Dr. Maria G. Garabito Ramirez, is a doctrinaire judge who has served the country in the Public Administration (Legislative, Executive and Judicial), teaching and cultural development in her community, San Juan de la Maguana.
Before beginning her judicial career in 1989 as a Judge of First Instance in the Criminal Chamber of the Court of First Instance of the Judicial District of San Juan de la Maguana, she developed as a member of the Public Prosecutor's Office, from prosecutor, assistant prosecutor to public prosecutor. In 1991, she was promoted to Member Judge of the Court of Appeals with Full Jurisdiction (at the time) of the Judicial Department of San Juan de la Maguana, where she reached the categories of Second and First Substitute, remaining in said Court for 21 years.
At the time of her appointment as judge of the Supreme Court of Justice in 2019, she was serving as President of the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeals of the Judicial Department of San Cristobal, to which she had been promoted in 2012. In general, Dr. Garabito has more than 31 years of permanent service in the Judiciary.
In addition to her experience, she has served as President of the Supervisory Board of the National Cooperative of Multiple Services of Judicial Servants, Inc. of which she is also a founding member. She is also treasurer of the Association of Judges of the Dominican Republic.
As part of her professional practice, she teaches at the Escuela Nacional de la Judicatura and at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, in the areas of Integral Education and Legal, Labor and Commercial Services, respectively. She also taught at the Universidad Tecnológica de Santiago and, in addition, she was in charge of the legislative area of the National Congress of the Dominican Republic.
Graduated as Doctor in Law from the Universidad Central del Este with teaching qualification from the Instituto Superior de Formación Docente Salomé Ureña, Recinto Urania Montas, and in Management Skills from Infotep. She has completed master's degrees in Constitutional Law and Labor Law; specializations in National and International Administration of Justice, by the UASD and the Judicial School of the General Council of the Judiciary of Spain, and in Criminal Law by the International Office for Development, Assistance and Training of the Department of Justice of the United States in Puerto Rico; in a permanent attitude of improvement and updating for the benefit of a better service of justice.
She has been recognized by multiple and diverse institutions for her teaching and community work, her work trajectory and her collaboration as a lecturer on various law topics. Among these recognitions, the one from her Alma Mater as Honorary Graduate, the various recognitions granted by the National School of the Judiciary in different areas and by the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, for her excellent performance as a teacher, stand out.
Francisco Antonio Ortega Polanco
Justice of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice
Judge of the Supreme Court of the Dominican Republic (currently in the Second Chamber and upon joining the Labor, Land, Administrative and Tax Chamber), after having occupied all the steps of the judicial career since 1998.
Francisco Antonio Ortega Polanco
Justice member of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice
Judge of the Supreme Court of the Dominican Republic (currently in the Second Chamber and upon joining the Labor, Land, Administrative and Tax Chamber), after having occupied all the steps of the judicial career since 1998.
Doctor in Law from the University of Salamanca (Cum Laude, Outstanding), Master in Constitutional Law from the Pantheón-Sorbonne, Paris I, France. Master in Administrative Law from the University of Salamanca, Spain. Law Degree, Cum Laude, Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU). Specialization in Tax Law from the Escuela Nacional de la Judicatura (National School of the Judiciary). Diploma in Comparative Labor Law, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. Diploma in Arbitration. Diploma in Registry Law for Banking and Business.
Coordinator for the Dominican Republic of the Pan-Hispanic Legal Dictionary in agreement with the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) and the University of Salamanca (USAL). Author of about ten legal and general culture works.
Collaborating professor of doctorate at the University of Salamanca. Professor in the Master in Public Administration Law, Universidad de Salamanca-Instituto Global. He has also taught at the Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE), Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM), Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU) and the Escuela Nacional de la Judicatura.
Speaker at the international seminars on Inter-American Standards on the Right of Access to Public Information (Bogotá, D. C., Colombia), and essential issues of Justice and Best Citizen Practices in the Americas (Mexico, D. F., Mexico). Participation in the interregional seminars on Intellectual Property for Judges and Prosecutors of Latin America (Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. Antigua, Guatemala) and in the Global Network of Judicial Integrity, in Vienna, Austria.
Fran Euclides Soto Sánchez
Justice member of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice
Judge Fran Euclides Soto Sánchez holds a doctorate in Law from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD). He is a member of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, which deals with criminal matters, a branch of law that he handles in an extraordinary manner and in which he has worked before his appointment as judge of this high court.
Fran Euclides Soto Sánchez
Justice member of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice
Judge Fran Euclides Soto Sánchez holds a doctorate in Law from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD). He is a member of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, which deals with criminal matters, a branch of law that he handles in an extraordinary manner and in which he has worked before his appointment as judge of this high court.
In 2009 he was appointed career prosecutor after passing the corresponding tests established by the Public Prosecutor's Office. He was Deputy Prosecutor of the Public Prosecutor of the National District, as well as Deputy Attorney General and National Director of Drug Trafficking and Complex Crime of the Attorney General's Office.
During his work as deputy attorney general he handled sensitive situations such as human trafficking and organized crime cases.
As part of her professional training, she has participated in the International Training Course on Living Conditions in Prisons and their Programs, in San José, Costa Rica. She has carried out important international studies and specialties on the prevention and punishment of human trafficking, in Mexico City; training on crimes of commercial sexual exploitation of minors in the region, in Costa Rica City.
Judge of the Supreme Court of Justice during the period 2011-2018, ratified in 2019, as a member of that high Court by the National Council of the Magistracy (CNM).
Nancy Salcedo Fernandez
Justice of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice
She is a graduate in Law from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) in 1981, and from that university she also received a Master's Degree in Constitutional Law, together with the University of Castilla-La Mancha, a Master's Degree in Fundamental Rights and Freedoms ...
Nancy Salcedo Fernandez
Justice of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice
She graduated in Law from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) in 1981, and from that university she also received a Master's Degree in Constitutional Law, jointly with the University of Castilla-La Mancha, and a Master's Degree in Fundamental Rights and Freedoms and their Guarantees, (dual degree with the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra) in 2009.
In public practice, she began in 1982 as a prosecutor in the Justice of the Peace Court of the Third Circumscription of Santiago. Based on her unquestionable merits, she has built a trajectory of work in the Dominican justice system, climbing step by step the different positions within the National Judiciary since 1985 as Justice of the Peace, Judge of First Instance and Presiding Judge of the Labor Court of Santiago.
With the entry into force of the Labor Code (Law 16-92), new labor courts were created, and Judge Salcedo Fernandez was appointed by the Senate of the Republic as presiding judge of the Labor Court of the Judicial Department of Santiago, a position subsequently ratified by the Supreme Court of Justice after passing a competitive examination.
In 2019 she was appointed by the National Council of the Magistracy as Judge of the Supreme Court of Justice, since that time she has served as Counselor of the Judiciary, Judge of the Third Chamber, SCJ and is currently a member of the Second Chamber of that high court.
As a professor at the National School of the Judiciary, he has been actively involved in the commendable task of training aspiring judges, newly appointed judges and the continuing education of judges.
Third Chamber or Land, Labor, Contentious-Tax and Contentious-Administrative Courts
Manuel Alexis Read Ortiz
Presiding Justice of the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice
Doctor in Law, graduated from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD). Doctrinarian, career judge with more than 30 years in the administration of justice, specializing in civil and real estate matters.
Manuel Alexis Read Ortiz
Presiding Justice of the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice
Doctor in Law, graduated from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD). Doctrinarian, career judge with more than 30 years in the administration of justice, specializing in civil and real estate matters.
Within his training as a legal professional, he has completed a specialization in Criminal Sciences at the University of Costa Rica (1985); Specialist in Judicial Law, National School of the Judiciary (2006); Master in Administrative and Municipal Law, University of Castilla-La Mancha (2017), among others.
He has served as Justice of the Peace Judge of the Justice of the Peace of the Municipal District of Sabana Larga, San José de Ocoa; Presiding Judge of the Fifth Chamber of the Civil and Commercial Chamber of First Instance of Santo Domingo. He was also Presiding Judge of the Civil and Commercial Chamber of the Court of Appeals of Santo Domingo and Presiding Judge of the Superior Court of Lands, Central Department.
He has published several works of legal doctrine among which are cited: Los medios de inadmisión en el proceso civil dominicano (2 volumes); Las incapacidades en Derecho Civil (2 volumes); Del Referimiento y otros temas; Referimiento: siete años de jurisprudencia de la Corte de Apelación de Santo Domingo, co-authored with Justice Samuel Arias Arzeno, among other literary works.
He was appointed by the National Council of the Magistracy (CNM) as a judge of the Supreme Court of Justice in July 2017, and in April 2019, he was chosen as president of the Third Chamber of that High Court.
He was appointed by the National Council of the Magistracy (CNM) as a judge of the Supreme Court of Justice in July 2017, and in April 2019, he was chosen as president of the Third Chamber of that High Court.
Manuel Ramón Herrera Carbuccia
Justice of the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice and First Substitute for the President
Law degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (Pucmm, 1981), postgraduate degree in Labor Law from the same university.
Manuel Ramón Herrera Carbuccia
Justice of the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice and First Substitute for the President
Law degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra with a postgraduate degree in Labor Law from the same university. Judge of the Supreme Court of Justice during the period 2011-2018, ratified in 2019 by the National Council of the Magistracy.
D. from the Complutense University of Madrid with outstanding grade cum laude; postdoctoral courses European Social Model: Problems of Social Citizenship and Labor Regulation in the European Union at the University of Castilla-La Mancha and Specialization for Latin American Experts in Problems of Labor and Labor Relations, Trade Union Freedom, organized by the International Labor Organization in Turin, Bologna and Toledo; Master in Employment, Labor Relations, Labor Relations and Social Dialogue in Europe at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, where he is also a doctoral student with a thesis pending presentation on The Value of Labor in the Constitution of Spain and the Dominican Republic.
He has written books on labor matters, such as: Recopilación Jurisprudencial y Estudios Judiciales de Derecho del Trabajo, Recopilación Jurisprudencial; Estudios Críticos de Derecho del Trabajo Volumen I; Estudios de Procedimiento Laboral en Iberoamérica, coordinator; El Referimiento en Materia Civil, Comercial y de Trabajo, Academia de Ciencias de la República Dominicana; Referimiento Laboral, Doctrina, Legislación y Jurisprudencia; El Recurso de Casación Laboral en Iberoamérica.
Estudios de Igualdad y Diversidad; Estudios Críticos de Derecho del Trabajo, Vol. II (Unpublished); La Justicia Laboral en Centroamérica, Panamá y República Dominicana, study sponsored by the ILO; Referimiento Laboral, legislación y jurisprudencia 1998-2012; Temas de Derecho Constitucional del Trabajo, coordinator; Jurisprudencia Constitucional en Materia Laboral de la Suprema Corte de Justicia, and Sentencias y Comentarios y Jurisprudencia en Materia Laboral 2012-2018.
He is President of the Commission of Inquiry XIII designated by the International Labor Organization ILO, Honorary President of the Iberoamerican Association of Labor Law and Social Security, also of the Dominican and Central American and Caribbean Association of Labor Law and Social Security; member of the Iberoamerican Academy of Labor Law and Coordinator of the Commission of Legal Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of the DR and director of its Law magazine. Full Professor at the PUCMM and Postgraduate Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo; researcher and writer of several books on Law and Jurisprudence and founding member of the Quisqueya Group, dedicated to studies of Comparative Labor Law.
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Rafael Vásquez Goico
Justice of the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice
Law Degree from Universidad Eugenio María de Hostos (1989), magna cum laude. Specialization in Judicial Law, Escuela Nacional de la Judicatura in 2003, specializing in Civil Procedural Law....
Rafael Vásquez Goico
Justice of the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice
Law Degree from Universidad Eugenio María de Hostos (1989), magna cum laude. Specialty in Judicial Law, Escuela Nacional de la Judicatura in 2003, specialty in Civil Procedural Law Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) in 2006, Constitutional Law at PUCMM, 2009, Master in Rights and Public Freedoms, with double degree at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD) in the Master's Degrees of Labor and Social Security Law; Administrative Procedural Law and Constitutional Law, at the Pucmm and at the Universidad Iberoamericana (Unibe).
He is a professional in constant training, and has carried out special studies on constitutional law and fundamental rights; Theory of Justice (Argentina); XXII Meeting of Administrative Jurisdiction (Colombia); Advisory on best practices in public procurement and program for the development of commercial law (United States Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C.), among others.
He is the author of important works, among which are "El Recurso Le Contredit en el derecho de trabajo" (magazine of the association of labor lawyers); "El juez de la ejecución de la sentencia en el derecho de trabajo" (Revista del Centro de Estudios del Derecho de Trabajo); Los Incidentes en el procedimiento laboral dominicano (Ediciones Jurídicas Trajano Potentini), among others.
He has been part of the Judicial Branch since November 25, 1998, and at the time of his appointment as a member of the Supreme Court of Justice in April 2019, he served as Presiding Judge of the Superior Administrative Court.
Anselmo Alejandro Bello Ferreras
Justice of the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice
Judge Bello Ferreras holds a Doctorate in Law from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD). He joined the Judicial Branch as Justice of the Peace in July 2000.
Anselmo Alejandro Bello Ferreras
Justice of the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice
Judge Bello Ferreras holds a Doctorate in Law from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD). He joined the Judicial Branch as Justice of the Peace in July 2000.
He is a teacher, doctrinarian and columnist with vast experience in civil and real estate matters. At the time of his appointment to the Supreme Court of Justice, in April 2019, he served as Presiding Judge of the First Chamber of the Superior Land Court, Central Department.
Committed to academic preparation and professional updating, he has a master's degree in International Relations and a postgraduate degree in Advanced Research Methodology, both from the Universidad Católica Santo Domingo. He also holds a Master's Degree in Administrative Law and Municipal Management from the University of Castilla-La Mancha; his training includes a diploma on constitutional law at the Fundación de Jóvenes para el Progreso (Funjepro).
He is a professor of Civil Procedure Law and Civil Law at the UASD and at the Universidad Católica Santo Domingo (UCSD).
He has made contributions to the Dominican doctrine with the publication of academic books among which we can highlight: Tratado de Derecho Procesal Civil I, Principales Procedimientos en Materia Civil, La Compraventa en el Derecho Civil Dominicano and several articles in the newspaper El Día.
Moisés Ferrer Landrón
Justice of the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice
Law degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD). He has completed several master's degrees, specialties, diplomas, courses and postgraduate studies in various areas of law.
Moisés Alfredo Ferrer Landrón
Justice of the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice
Law degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD). He has completed several master's degrees, specialties, diplomas, courses and postgraduate studies in various areas of law.
His professional training includes a Master's Degree in Electoral Political Studies from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (Pucmm) with a double degree from the University of Granada-Spain; Master's Degree in Administrative Law and Municipal Management from the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain; Master's Degree in Constitutional Law and Public Law from the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
Also postgraduate Specialization in Administrative Law and Public Law, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain; Specialization in Constitutional Justice and Jurisdictional Guarantees; University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain; Specialization in Constitutional Law of the Dominican Republic, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain; Specialist in Civil Procedure, Universidad Católica Nordestana (UCNE); Specialization in Civil Law, Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD), Postgraduate in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedural Law, Universidad Apec (Unapec), among others.
