The U.S. Senate has confirmed Silvia Carreño-Coll to the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico on a 96-0 vote. Overall, the Senate has confirmed 193 of President Trump’s judicial nominees—138 district court judges, 51 appeals court judges, two Court of International Trade judges, and two Supreme Court justices.

Carreño-Coll was a federal magistrate judge for the District of Puerto Rico from 2011 to 2020. Before that, she was associate regional counsel in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Caribbean Environmental Protection Division (1995-2011), an assistant U.S. attorney in the District of Puerto Rico (1989-1995), and an attorney in the Puerto Rico Department of Justice (1986-1989). Carreño-Coll earned her B.A., cum laude, from Emerson College in 1983 and her J.D., cum laude, from the University of Puerto Rico School of Law in 1986.

Carreño-Coll succeeded Judge Jay Garia-Gregory, who assumed senior status on September 30, 2018. After Carreño-Coll received commission, the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico had five Republican-appointed judges, two Democrat-appointed judges, and no vacancies.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico is one of 94 U.S. District Courts. They are the general trial courts of the United States federal court system.

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