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Pascal-Trouillot, Ertha

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Personal name headingPascal-Trouillot, Ertha
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Variant(s)Trouillot, Ertha Pascal-
Associated countryHaiti
Birth date1943
Place of birthPétionville (Haiti)
AffiliationHaiti. Supreme Court
Haiti. President
Profession or occupationPresidents Lawyers
Found inAuthor'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)