Gina R. Méndez-Miró

Gina Raquel Méndez-Miró (born 1974) is a Puerto Rican jurist serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. She previously served as appellate judge of the Puerto Rico Court of Appeals.

Education 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. Later, she obtained a Master of Arts degree in romance languages and literatures from Princeton University. In 2001, she earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Puerto Rico School of Law. After being sworn in as an attorney in 2001, she became an associate at O'Neill & Borges. 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.

Méndez-Miró served on the Puerto Rico Court of Appeals from 2016 to 2023. The Puerto Rico Court of Appeals is an intermediate appellate court with jurisdiction over cases originating in the Court of First Instance and determinations issued by administrative agencies.

United States district court

On June 15, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Méndez-Miró to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. President Biden nominated Méndez-Miró to the seat vacated by Judge Carmen Consuelo Cerezo, who retired on February 28, 2021. On July 13, 2022, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. On August 4, 2022, her nomination was reported out of committee by a 11–9–2 vote. On January 3, 2023, her nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate; she was renominated later the same day. On February 2, 2023, her nomination was reported out of committee by an 11–9 vote. On February 13, 2023, the Senate invoked cloture on her nomination by a 52–44 vote. On February 14, 2023, her nomination was confirmed by a 54–45 vote. Méndez-Miró's confirmation marked the 100th Article Three federal judge confirmed by the United States Senate during the Presidency of Joe Biden. She received her judicial commission on February 24, 2023. She was sworn in on March 1, 2023. She is the first openly LGBT federal district court judge in Puerto Rico.

Personal life Méndez-Miró is married to Maite Oronoz Rodríguez, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. Together, they are the mothers of twins, a boy and a girl.