Background
María Milagros Charbonier was born on November 24, 1963 in Fajardo, Puerto Rico to Roberto Charbonier and Milagros Laureano.
María Milagros Charbonier was born on November 24, 1963 in Fajardo, Puerto Rico to Roberto Charbonier and Milagros Laureano.
She studied in various schools in the Metropolitan area, graduating from high school in 1981 from the Doctor José M. Lázaro High School. After that, she completed a Juris doctor from the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico Facultyt of Law.
She was elected to the Puerto Rico House of Representatives on the 2012 general election. She also served as Secretary General of the New Progressive Party (PNP). In 1986, Charbonier received a Bachelor"s degree in Arts, with a major in Social Science from the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras.
Charbonier passed the bar exam which allows her to practice law in Puerto Rico.
Charbonier has worked as an attorney, specializing in areas like Family, Criminal, Constitutional, and Environmental Law. She has also served as Legal Advisor to various municipalities in the island.
As such, she was chosen to represent the Delegation of Lawyers of Carolina. She was then elected as delegate to the Board of Directors of the Puerto Rico Bar Association where she occupied the position of Vice-President.
In recent years, Charbonier served as Administrative Judge of the Special Education Program of the Puerto Rico Department of Education.
She has also worked for the Puerto Rico Police Department and the Department of Family Affairs of Puerto Rico. Charbonier served as Secretary General of the New Progressive Party (PNP) during Pedro Rosselló"s tenure as Governor of Puerto Rico. She arrived in fifth place in the voting.
She was elected at the 2012 elections, receiving the second highest amount of votes within her party, behind incumbent Speaker Jenniffer González.