LC control no. | n 81003458 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Pascal-Trouillot, Ertha |
Variant(s) | Trouillot, Ertha Pascal- |
Associated country | Haiti |
Birth date | 1943 |
Place of birth | Pétionville (Haiti) |
Affiliation | Haiti. Supreme Court Haiti. President |
Profession or occupation | Presidents Lawyers |
Found in | Author's Statut juridique ... 1973. Encyclopédie biographique d'Haïti, 2001- : t. 1, t.p. (Ertha Pascal Trouillot; former court of appeals judge; former president of Haïti) African American National Biography, accessed September 6, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Pascal-Trouillot, Ertha; Haitian president, lawyer; born in 1943 in Petionville, Haiti; graduated from École de Droit (law school) in Gonaïves (1971); was appointed judge of a civil court (1979), on the court of appeals (1985) and justice on Haiti's Supreme Court (1988); served as provisional president of Haiti (1990-1991); her main task was to share power with the council of state and hold the general elections; stepped down from office, handing over power to Jean-Bertrand Aristide; was arrested on charges that she had willfully participated in the coup, which she forcefully denied) |