Jorge Díaz Reverón | |
Office: | First Gentleman of Puerto Rico |
Term Label: | In role |
Term Start: | August 7, 2019 |
Term End: | January 2, 2021 |
Governor: | Wanda Vázquez Garced |
Preceded: | Beatriz Rosselló (de jure) Vacant (de facto) |
Succeeded: | Vacant |
Birth Date: | 1 June 1960 |
Birth Place: | Caguas, Puerto Rico |
Spouse: | Wanda Vázquez Garced |
Children: | Jorge Álvaro Díaz Rodríguez (alias Alvarito Díaz), Beatriz Díaz Vázquez y Stephanie Díaz Vázquez |
Alma Mater: | Interamerican University of Puerto Rico School of Law (J.D.) |
Profession: | Judge |
Jorge Díaz Reverón is a Puerto Rican judge. He was the first First Gentleman of Puerto Rico and husband of Wanda Vázquez Garced. At the time, Díaz Reverón was a superior court judge in Caguas.
Díaz Reverón graduated in 1987 from the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico School of Law. He began serving as a judge in December 2009 under the administration of Governor Luis Fortuño.[1] He was a superior court trial judge in criminal matters at Caguas, Puerto Rico.[2]
In December 2018, amid concerns of unlawful intervention on behalf of his wife, then Attorney General Wanda Vázquez Garced, Díaz Reverón was removed from the chamber.[3] The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, ordered an investigation based on judicial ethical concerns which later found no probable cause.[4]
He became the first First Gentleman of Puerto Rico on August 7, 2019. In 2021 governor Pedro Pierluisi ascended him to an appeals court a move which his wife had considered while she was governor.[5] [6]
Díaz Reverón is married to politician and attorney Wanda Vázquez Garced. They have two daughters.[7] From August 7, 2019 until January 2, 2021, they resided in La Fortaleza, the official mansion residence of the Governor of Puerto Rico.[8]