Thelma Curling Rodríguez
Costa Rican judge and politician
Thelma Cecilia Curling Rodríguez (born 19 February 1933) is a jurist and politician from Costa Rica. She is a defender of women's rights and was the first woman of Afro-Costa Rican descent to become a member of the parliament of Costa Rica.
Early life and education
She was born in the Costa Rican capital San José and attended elementary school in the Escuela España and high school in the Colegio Superior de Señoritas. Following she studied law in the University of Costa Rica and became a lawyer in 1959. Influenced by her Afro Costa Rican descent, she chose Limón to work as a lawyer.
Professional career
Having arrived in Limon, she became a teacher from 1960 to 1962. As a lawyer she represented the banks Banco Nacional de Costa Rica and Banco Crédito Agrícola of Cartago. In the province of Limon she was a judge in several courts. Internationally, she represented Costa Rica in the Commission on the Status of Women of the United Nations between 1971 and 1988 and took part in women rights related congresses in Tunisia, Brazil or Mexico. In Switzerland she attended an exhibit on Women Peasants from Costa Rica with the writer Carmen Naranjo and in South Africa she took part in the Black Women Congress in 1995.
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