| Margarita Mercado Echegaray | |
| Birth Name: | Margarita Mercado Echegaray |
| Birth Date: | 7 December 1980 |
| Birth Place: | San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Party: | Popular Democratic Party |
| Occupation: | attorney |
| Alma Mater: | University of Puerto Rico (BA) University of Puerto Rico School of Law (JD) Columbia Law School (LL.M.) |
| Successor: | Luis R. Román Negrón |
| Office: | 18th Solicitor General of Puerto Rico |
| Termend: | 2017 |
| Termstart: | January 13, 2013 |
| Governor: | Alejandro García Padilla |
Margarita Mercado Echegaray (Born December 7, 1980) is an attorney, the former Solicitor General of Puerto Rico, and the youngest to hold such post.[1] Mercado has a bachelor's degree in political science and history of the Americas, and a juris doctor from the University of Puerto Rico School of Law. She also has a master of laws in constitutional law and civil rights from Columbia University.[2] Before her appointment, Mercado served as a law clerk at the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and as a law clerk for Anabelle Rodríguez in the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico.
Mercado's most prominent cases includes the defense of the government of Puerto Rico against a lawsuit presented by the Puerto Rico Association of Members of the Judiciary.[3] The Association claims that Act 162 of 2013 is unconstitutional and that it minimizes the principle of judicial independence.[4] [5]