The era of Milton Ray Guevara as the highly respected president of the Constitutional Court comes to an end on Thursday, 28 December 2023. Ray Guevara presided the court in its first 12 years – 2011 to 2023.
Five judges will take office beginning their nine-year terms at the highest court, including Napoleon Ricardo Estevez Lavandier as the new presiding judge. The other four judges are Fidias Federico Aristy Payano, Amaury Amilcar Reyes Torres, Sonia Argentina Diaz Inoa and Army Esperanza Ferreira Reyes.
The judges are replacing Lino Vásquez Samuel, Víctor Joaquín Castellanos, Justo Pedro Castellanos and Rafael Díaz, who ceased their duties on Wednesday, 27 December after having served 12 years in the high court.
The five new judges will join judges Domingo Antonio Gil, Alba Luisa Beard Marcos, María del Carmen Santana de Cabera, José Alejandro Ayuso, Miguel Aníbal Valera Montero, Manuel Ulises Bonelly Vega, José Alejandro Ayuso Vargas and Eunice Vásquez Acosta.
In the new composition, judges Miguel Aníbal Valera Montero and Eunisis Vásquez Acosta will serve as first and second substitutes for the president of the TC, respectively.
To close his 12 years at the helm of the Constitutional Court, Milton Ray Guevara presented the Constitutional Intelligence Laboratory, an initiative with high-level technological tools to improve access of the general public to constitutional justice.
The lab facilitates information online on the Constitution, the rulings issued by the high court, the statements, the news, and the rules and regulations that govern the Constitutional Court.
On his last day as president of the Constitutional Court, Ray Guevara called on the new magistrates who will make up the plenary session to continue strengthening the image of the institution.
“They must continue to earn the trust of the Dominican people… That the court not serve popular groups, political groups, partisan groups, social groups, economic groups, that it be loyal to the Constitution,” said Ray Guevara.
Ray Guevara also announced at the end of his term that the offices where the Constitutional Court is located are now in the name of the Constitutional Court.
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28 December 2023