César Miranda | |
Office: | 18th Secretary of Justice of Puerto Rico |
Governor: | Alejandro García Padilla |
Term Start: | January 13, 2014 |
Term End: | January 2, 2017 |
Predecessor: | Luis Sánchez Betances |
Successor: | Wanda Vázquez Garced |
Office2: | 3rd Chief of Staff of Puerto Rico |
Term Start2: | August 2, 2001 |
Term End2: | January 2, 2005 |
Birth Place: | Coamo, Puerto Rico |
Party: | Popular Democratic |
Otherparty: | Democratic |
Education: | University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras (BBA) Rutgers University, Camden (JD) |
César R. Miranda Rodríguez (born in Coamo, Puerto Rico), is an attorney and former Secretary of Justice of Puerto Rico.[1] Miranda was formerly Vice President of the Puerto Rico Telephone Company and Chief of Staff for governor Sila María Calderón.[2] Miranda substituted for Luis Sánchez Betances after Sánchez Bentances resigned effective December 31, 2013. Miranda Rodríguez served as deputy secretary of Justice during the second administration of Governor Rafael Hernández Colón in the 1980s when Héctor Rivera Cruz led the agency. He was a law professor UPR School of Law. He holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Management and Accounting from the University of Puerto Rico and a Juris Doctor degree from Rutgers University–Camden in New Jersey.