Who appointed Carmen Consuelo Cerezo?

President Jimmy Carter appointed Carmen Consuelo Cerezo to the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico in 1980.

Was Carmen Consuelo Cerezo appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

Carmen Consuelo Cerezo was appointed by President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was Carmen Consuelo Cerezo's confirmation vote?

Carmen Consuelo Cerezo was confirmed by voice vote on June 26, 1980. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

District of Puerto Rico / Appointed 1980 / Served to 2021

Carmen Consuelo Cerezo

Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico

Appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1980 and confirmed by voice vote, Carmen Consuelo Cerezo was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. She earned a law degree from University of Puerto Rico School of Law in 1966. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1940 · age 86
Appointed by: Jimmy Carter, 1980
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: University of Puerto Rico 1963 · University of Puerto Rico Law 1966
Succeeded by: Gina Raquel Méndez-Miró

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1980	District of Puerto Rico	Carter (D)	Voice vote

Party letters show the appointing president’s party, not the judge’s own. A voice vote means the chamber approved aloud. No senator-by-senator tally is recorded.

Confirmation vote

Voice vote

The Senate approved this confirmation aloud, with no senator-by-senator tally recorded. Recorded roll-call votes begin in 1989.

Education

University of Puerto Rico	B.A.	1963
University of Puerto Rico School of Law	J.D.	1966
University of Virginia School of Law	LL.M.	1988

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Cerezo was assigned 4,737 district-court cases (1982–2020). Median time from filing to termination: 327 days across 4,735 closed cases.

Real property21%

Personal-injury torts16%

Contract14%

Civil rights12%

Social Security8%

Prisoner & habeas8%

Other21%

Case assignment is from CourtListener’s PACER-derived docket records: a partial sample, not a complete caseload, reflecting the judge last assigned each case. How we count.

On appeal

Of 168 of Cerezo’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 133 were affirmed, 23 reversed or vacated, and 12 affirmed in part and reversed in part. This is a historical count of appellate outcomes for cases we could match, not a judgment of the judge, and not a complete record. How we count.

In our data, Cerezo authored 204 published opinions for the court (1981–2011). Most cited: Sea-Land Service, Inc. v. Sea-Land of Puerto Rico, Inc. (62 citations).

A selective record from published opinions in the CourtListener corpus, not every ruling; most unpublished district orders are not included. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge.

Recent & notable rulings

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1986	Sea-Land Service, Inc. v. Sea-Land of Puerto Rico, Inc.	636 F. Supp. 750	62
1990	Harrington v. United States	748 F. Supp. 919	21
1984	Fagot v. Federal Deposit Ins. Corp.	584 F. Supp. 1168	21
1982	Odriozola v. Superior Cosmetic Distributors, Inc.	531 F. Supp. 1070	21
1995	Banco Popular De Puerto Rico v. Airborne Group PLC	882 F. Supp. 1212	19
1984	Mario R. Franceschini, Inc. v. Riley Co.	591 F. Supp. 414	19
1982	Santiago v. Becton Dickinson & Co., S. A.	539 F. Supp. 1149	19
1984	Computec Systems Corp. v. General Automation, Inc.	599 F. Supp. 819	18
1988	Federal Deposit Ins. Corp. v. Prann	694 F. Supp. 1027	17
1985	Stitzer v. University of Puerto Rico	617 F. Supp. 1246	16
1983	Santiago v. Becton Dickinson & Co., SA	571 F. Supp. 904	16
1983	Francisco Garraton, Inc. v. LANMAN & KEMP-BARCLAY & KEMP-BARCLAY & CO., INC.	559 F. Supp. 405	16
1996	Fernandez-Fernandez v. Municipality of Bayamon	942 F. Supp. 89	15
1981	Loubrido v. Hull Dobbs Co. of Puerto Rico, Inc.	526 F. Supp. 1055	15
1995	Kery v. American Airlines, Inc.	931 F. Supp. 947	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 204 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

Who appointed Carmen Consuelo Cerezo?: President Jimmy Carter appointed Carmen Consuelo Cerezo to the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico in 1980.
Was Carmen Consuelo Cerezo appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: Carmen Consuelo Cerezo was appointed by President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was Carmen Consuelo Cerezo's confirmation vote?: Carmen Consuelo Cerezo was confirmed by voice vote on June 26, 1980. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court was Carmen Consuelo Cerezo on?: Carmen Consuelo Cerezo was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico.

Sources

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40 years on the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. Data as of 2026-08-10. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).