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María Soledad Alvear Valenzuela
Former Board Member
María Soledad Alvear Valenzuela, of Chile, formed part of President Ricardo Lagos’ administration as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from March 2000 to September 2004. The international policy that was developed during that period was characterized by a regional focus, the broadening of ... read more

Mónica Nágel Berger
Former Board Member
Mónica Nagel Berger, Costa Rican, is a practicing attorney and notary. She earned her Licentiate Degree in Law from the Universidad Autónoma de Centroamérica, San José, Costa Rica in 1983. She also earned a Master’s Degree in Political Science in 2002. .. read more

George M. Thomson
Former Board Member
Since 1999, George M. Thomson has been the Executive Director of the National Judicial Institute. He also serves a Director on JSCA’s Board of Directors. He earned his B.A. in Philosophy and English, as well as his LL.B. at Queen’s University. He earned his LL.M. at the University of California ...read more

Karl Terrence Hudson-Phillips
Former Board Member
For the past forty-three years, Karl Terrence Hudson-Phillips has practiced extensively in all the common law jurisdictions in the Caribbean, from the Bahamas in the north to Guyana in the south. Over the last three and a half decades he has been involved in almost every major criminal prosecution...read more

Federico Callizo Nicora
Former Board Member
Paraguayan, Attorney-at-law, President of the Association of Lawyers of Paraguay – Years 1970 – 1972 and member of its Directive Council, during some previous periods. Former President of the Committee of Integration and Development of the Interamerican Federation of Lawyers, permanent Counselor...read more

Douglas Casell
Former Board Member
Professor Douglass Cassel is the director of the International Center of Human Rights at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago; where he teaches courses in international law on the subject of human rights. In addition, he is responsible for the activities of the Center for research....read more

Germán Garavano
Former Board Member
Prosecutor General of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. Former Member of the Buenos Aires Magistrate's Council and former judge, Garavano is a member-elect (OAS General Assembly) of the JSCA Board of Directors (2005). Garavano is also a researcher for Unidos por la Justicia and a consultant for...read more

Lloyd Ellis
Former Board Member
Bachelor of Laws (London), Barrister of Laws (Inner Temple). Crown Counsel at the Attorney General's Chambers (1965-1970); Resident Magistrate at the Registrer Magistrate's Court, Kingston (1970-1981); Senior Assistant Attorney General at the Attorney General's Department (1973-1981)...read more

Jaime Arellano Quintana
Former Board Member

Attorney with a degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (1984-1988). Between 1994 and 1996, Arellano studied at the American University School of Public Affairs in Washington, D.C. ...read more

Raphael Carl Rattray
Former Board Member
Jamaican. Director of the Justice Studies Center of the Americas 1999-2002...read more
José Ovalle
Former Board Member
Mexican. Director the Justice Studies Center of the Americas 1999-2001...read more

Lucila E. Larrandart
Former Board Member

Lucila E. Larrandart is an attorney. She graduated from the Universidad de Buenos Aires Law School in 1965 and has served as a judge in the First Federal Criminal Oral Trial Court in the San Martín Province of Buenos Aires since 1993. ... read more


Hebe Martínez Burle
Former Board Member

Hebe Martínez, of Uruguay, holds a doctorate in Law and Social Sciences from the Universidad de la República (1984) and was granted the title of Procurador by the same institution in 1980. She has worked for the Legal Division of the Tribunal de Cuentas de la República (1973-1976) ...read more


Carlos Eduardo Caputo Bastos
Former Board Member

Carlos Eduardo Caputo Bastos, of Brazil, holds a law degree from the Universidad de Brasilia with a focus on Labor and Benefits Law, Tax and Financial Law, and Constitutional Law. He has served as a consultant for the National Center for State Courts – NCSC, Washington-DC, USA ... read more