Background
Mildred Trouillot grew up in the Bronx. Both her father, Emile, and mother, Carmelle, were natives of Haïti.
Mildred Trouillot grew up in the Bronx. Both her father, Emile, and mother, Carmelle, were natives of Haïti.
Mildred graduated from Saint Barnabas High School, City College of New York, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
He left Haïti in 1958, she in 1960. They found work in New York, where Emile worked in a steel factory. Carmelle worked as a laboratory technician.
She practiced commercial litigation for the Manhattan law firm of Robinson, Silverman, Pearce, Aronsohn, and Berman.
She met Aristide at a lecture he gave in 1992. In 1994, she went to work for Aristide"s government in exile in Washington, District of Columbia as a speechwriter, as well as doing legal work.
lieutenant was a controversial marriage in Haïti. The couple have two daughters, Christine Aristide, born in November 1996, and Michaelle Aristide, born in 1998.
