Fuster Berlingeri, Jaime B. (Jaime Benito), 1941-2007

Jaime Benito Fuster Berlingeri (January 12, 1941 – December 3, 2007) was a Puerto Rican politician. He notably served as Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico from 1985 to 1992 and as an Associate Justice to the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico from 1992 until his death in 2007.

Born in Guayama, Puerto Rico, he graduated from Saint Anthony High School there before earning a B.A. from Notre Dame University, a LL.B. from the Universidad de Puerto Rico and an LL.M. from Columbia University. He received a fellowship in law and the humanities from Harvard from 1973 to 1974. When he returned to Puerto Rico, he served as dean of his law school through 1978. Throughout his tenure, Fuster took a particular interest in interamerican policy throughout Latin America, traveling extensively throughout the region. In 1980 he left the university to serve as a U.S. deputy assistant attorney general. The next year he started a fouryear tenure as president of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico.

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