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University of Maryland. Photo: Bgervais, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UMD_McKeldin_sundial.JPG)
Negrón Ramírez
Jeannette Marina Negron-Ramirez was born in 1966 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her professional identity has developed within Puerto Rico's Spanish-speaking legal and governmental institutions, while her admission to practice before United States federal courts connects her work with the broader American legal system.
Negron-Ramirez received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Maryland in 1987 and a Juris Doctor degree from the Inter American University of Puerto Rico School of Law in 1991. The University of Maryland is a major public research university whose academic programs developed within the higher-education system of the United States. Inter American University of Puerto Rico, founded in 1912, is a private Puerto Rican university with a law school serving the island's civil-law and legal-practice traditions.
Negron-Ramirez began her legal career in public service after completing her Juris Doctor. She served as a staff attorney in the General Litigation Division of the Puerto Rico Department of Justice from 1992 to 1994, handling judicial and administrative matters. She was admitted to the bar of Puerto Rico in 1992 and was also admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
From 1994 to 1995, she worked as a hearing examiner, also described as an administrative law judge, for the Puerto Rico Labor Relations Board. The board operated within Puerto Rico's administrative framework for resolving labor disputes and interpreting labor-relations law.
From 1995 to 1997, Negron-Ramirez worked in the Labor Department of Goldman, Antonetti & Córdova in San Juan, later identified as a partner of the firm. Her practice was associated with labor law, employment law, administrative law, and related litigation. She subsequently became a partner of Garcia-Chamorro Law Group in San Juan, a firm whose practice areas include labor and employment law, litigation, appellate practice, banking, and corporate matters.
In 2016, Governor Alejandro García Padilla nominated Negron-Ramirez as Procuradora de Asuntos de Menores, and the Puerto Rico Senate confirmed her appointment. The office forms part of Puerto Rico's public legal system for matters concerning minors. Government records also identify her as Secretaria Auxiliar within the Puerto Rico Department of Justice.
Negron-Ramirez has belonged to the Colegio de Abogados de Puerto Rico, the professional bar association representing lawyers in Puerto Rico. She has also been associated with the Inter American University Law School Alumni Association and the Association of Labor Relations' Practitioners, organizations connected respectively with legal education and professional exchange in labor-relations practice.
