Santo Domingo. With the assistance of President Luis Abinader, the Senate of the Republic recognized this Wednesday magistrate Milton Ray Guevara, head of the Constitutional Court (TC), for his outstanding professional career, legal career, example for students, researchers and jurists and for assuming a unwavering commitment to the defense, promotion and teaching of the Constitution, in favor of the institutionality of the country.
Through an act held in the National Assembly Hall of Congress attended by renowned actors of the country and businessmen, the magistrate received the parchment of recognition from the hands of the president; Eduardo Estrella, president of the Senate; and Alexis Victoria Yeb, proponent of the initiative.
Both Estrella and Victoria Yeb highlighted the qualities of the Dominican jurist.
In his speech, Milton Ray Guevara thanked the Senate for the generosity of recognizing him, as well as the President of the Republic for attending the ceremony, who indicated that he works tirelessly for the good of the country.
He also thanked Alexis Victoria Yeb for proposing the initiative, as well as his family.
The president of the TC recalled his long political career as a legislator. He mentioned that when he was a senator he submitted 26 bills, including the creation of the Ombudsman. Some of those pieces, he argued, were approved and others “lost to time.”
He also pointed out that he was proposing 15 resolutions, including recognition of the former President of the Republic Juan Bosch.
The magistrate took the opportunity to remind those present of the importance of teaching the Constitution in educational centers.
The recognition resolution was approved by the plenary session of the Upper House in the session on July 6 of last year.
More about the president of the TC
Doctor Milton Ray Guevara was born on May 5, 1948, in Samaná, Dominican Republic; He received his law degree summa cum laude from the Pontifical Catholic University Madre y Maestra in 1970 and graduated with a PhD in Public Law from the University of Nice, France, in 1975.
He has several diplomas, including Labor Law from the University of La Sorbonne in Paris, France, in 1984 and later, he completed international study certificates. Institute of the Law of Peace and Development (good mention, outstanding) of Nice, France, in 1974.
The magistrate was a professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, 1970-2012; director of the Department of Legal Sciences, 1988-1997 and dean of the Master of Business Law and Economic Legislation of the same university, 1993-1996; Master’s professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana, 2002-2017; rector of students with the rank of vice-rector of the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, 1971-1972.
The titular judge of the Constitutional Court has held outstanding public functions such as: Senator for the Samaná province; extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador in France and concurrent in the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Belgium, European Economic Community and Yugoslavia; and Minister of Labor and Minister without Portfolio.
He was also president of the National Social Security Council and representative of the Dominican Republic before the Administrative Council of the International Labor Organization; president of the 92nd International Labor Conference; member of the Drafting Committee of the Labor Code of 1992 and of the drafting committees of the constitutional reforms of 1994 and 2010; founding member and first executive director of the Institutionality and Justice Foundation, Inc. (FINJUS); it is part of the Latin American Ombudsman Institute; declared in 2015 “Honorary Member” of the Human Rights Institute of the Complutense University of Madrid.
