Ertha Pascal-Trouillot

Ertha Pascal - Trouillot ( born August 13, 1943 in Petionville ) is a Haitian judge, politician and was reigning and only President of Haiti.

Biography

Origin, study and career

Ertha Pascal was the ninth of ten children of steelworker Thimocles Pascal and his wife Louise Pascal Dumornay. After the early death of her father her mother and her nine siblings had to feed as a seamstress and embroiderer. At age ten, she continued her education at the Lycée François Duvalier in Petionville, where she earned the promotion of their future husband, the twenty-one years older teacher and lawyer Ernst Trouillot.

Through her ​​husband she could pursue studies in law after finishing school, she in July 1971 at the Ecole de Droit des Gonaives to Port-au -Prince with a thesis on " Statute Juridique De L' Haitienne Dans La legalization Sociale " graduated. In October 1971 she was admitted to the bar. In 1980 she was appointed as the first judge of the Civil Court (Tribunal Civil) from Port -au -Prince after they have been a commission for the revision of civil law belonged to in-house counsel of the Lawyers Association of Port -au -Prince. In 1985, her appeal to the first Judge of the Court of Appeal ( Cour d' Appel ), before she became the first woman judge of the Supreme Court ( Cour suprême or Cour de Cassation ) 1986. Two years later, it was 1990 President of the Supreme Court.

Acting President from 1990 to 1991

After the fall of the military government of Lieutenant General Prosper Avril Herard Abraham by Lieutenant-General on 10 March 1990 she was appointed on 13 March 1990 first and only incumbent President of Haiti after Abraham himself had renounced the presidency. When taking office, she promised the introduction of democracy.

On January 7, 1991, she was named after a coup by Roger Lafontant, the personal physician and eminence grise of ousted dictator Jean- Claude Duvalier in 1986, kidnapped and forced to announce in a televised address Lafontant as her successor. However Lafontant was forced to flee after emerging riots from Haiti.

After the presidential elections of 16 December 1990 she gave on February 7, 1991, the Office of the President to the election winner Jean -Bertrand Aristide. This left her arrest for alleged complicity in the coup of Lafontant of 7 January 1991. However, it has already been released after intervention by the U.S. government on one days and then went to exile in the United States, from which they did not return until more than a year later.

Publications

As a lawyer and judge, she was also the author of several legal reference books such as:

  • " Code de lois usuelles ", Port -au -Prince, 1978
  • " Retrospectives ... horizons ", Port -au -Prince, 1980
  • " Au grand boulevard de la Liberté: Souvenir d'un périple PRIVILEGIE aux États-Unis ", Port -au -Prince, 1981
  • "Analysis of De La legalization Revisant Le statute De La Femme Mariée: Le decree du 8 Octobre 1982 et le Code Civil ", Port -au -Prince in 1982

Upon her return, she retired from politics and was instead as already previously worked mainly as the author of books such as the Biographical Dictionary of Haiti and

  • " Etre femme en Haiti here et aujourd'hui: Le regard the constitutions, des lois et de la société ", Port -au -Prince, 2002

For her services to the French language, she was awarded, among others, by the French Alliance and as a member of the Association of Langue Française de Écrivains. She is also a member of the American Bar Association.

Legal science Gonaïves Port-au-Prince Appellate court Hérard Abraham Éminence grise Dictatorship Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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