Alba Luz Ramos
president of the Nicaraguan Supreme Court
Alba Luz Ramos Vanegas (born June 3, 1949) is a Nicaraguan lawyer and judge. She has served as president of the Supreme Court of Justice since 2010, and between 2003 and 2003. She is member of the Sandinista National Liberation Front since the 1970s.
Early life
Alba Luz Ramos Vanegas was born June 3, 1949, in León, Nicaragua to Adán Ramos Moncada and Margarita Vanegas de Ramos. She attended primary and secondary school at Colegio Pureza de María in León, graduating in 1968. She attended the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN-León), graduating with honors and a gold medal in 1973.
In León, she was a member of the Student Revolutionary Front (FER) of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), participating in the struggle to overthrow the Somoza dictatorship under the pseudonym "Natalia". Following the Case Chema raid in 1974, she was under investigation for her activities and left the country, studying French in Lausanne and English in London and then Texas where her sister lived.
Career
Ramos became a lawyer in December 1973.
She returned to Nicaragua in 1979 as Anastasio Somoza Debayle fell, and in 1981 became a civil servant with the FSLN, working as National Director of Registries.
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