Santo Domingo, RD.
The Plenum of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) appointed Judges Vanessa Acosta Peralta and Nancy Salcedo as members of the first and third chambers, respectively, and Magistrate Moisés Ferrer as a judge of the second chamber.
This decision will enter into force after the swearing-in of Judge Blas Fernández, elected as the representative of the SCJ judges before the Judicial Council (CPJ).
Judge Blas Fernández, who belonged to the first chamber of the Supreme Court, had been elected by the plenary as his representative before the CPJ, which led to the restructuring of his chambers.
In this regard, the First Chamber or the Civil and Commercial Chamber became composed of its President, Magistrate Pilar Jiménez Ortiz; Judges Samuel Arias Arzeno, Justiniano Montero Montero, Napoleón Estévez Lavandier and Judge Vanessa Acosta Peralta. While the Second Chamber or the Criminal Chamber, was composed of its President Magistrate Francisco Antonio Jerez Mena; magistrate María Garabito Ramírez; and Judges Francisco Ortega Polanco, Fran Euclides Soto and Moisés Ferrer Landrón. While the Third Chamber or the Land Chamber, Labor, Tax Litigation and Administrative Litigation will be composed of the magistrate of its president Manuel Read Ortiz; Judges Manuel Ramón Herrera Carbuccia, Rafael Vásquez Goico, Anselmo Bello Ferreras and Judge Nancy Salcedo Fernández.