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Soraya Diase Coffelt
Soraya Diase Coffelt is a lawyer and former judge of the United States Virgin Islands Superior Court. She was the first woman and first Hispanic from St. Thomas to serve as a judge.〔(Judge Soraya Diase Coffelt - Justicevi.org ) at It's Your Perspective Talk Show; published March 18, 2015; retrieved July 8, 2015〕 She served not only as a trial judge, but also as an appellate court judge, hearing and deciding appeals from the Superior Court on St. Croix. During her years of judicial service and afterwards, Diase Coffelt promoted the improvement of the local judicial system through the development of an autonomous Virgin Islands court system, which included the establishment of its own supreme court.〔(Meet Soraya Diase Coffelt, Candidate for Governor ) at In The Authors Corner; by Etienne; published 2014; retrieved May 19, 2015〕 Her Master’s thesis, advocating the establishment of a supreme court, was used as a guideline by Virgin Islands lawmakers to create the Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands in 2004. Diase Coffelt also developed the V.I. High School Moot Court Competition in 1994, which is an annual, interscholastic competition for high school seniors, with winners receiving college scholarships. The competition has been sponsored by the Virgin Islands Bar Association and the courts. In May, 2013, the Virgin Islands Bar Association presented Diase Coffelt with an award for her valuable contributions to the people of the Virgin Islands.〔(Bar Association Recognizes Former Judge Coffelt for Creating Moot Court Competition ) at St. Croix Source; published May 8, 2013; retrieved April 21, 2015〕
==Early life and education==
Soraya Diase Coffelt was born in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands to lower-middle class parents, who were small business owners.〔 Diase Coffelt was valedictorian of her high school class. She earned an undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Texas at Austin, graduating with honors in 1978. She then attended Cornell University’s School of Law and graduated in 1981 with a juris doctorate degree. After years of legal practice and judicial service, Diase Coffelt attended the University of Nevada at Reno and the National Judicial College, where she earned a degree of Master of Judicial Studies, with a major in Trial Judges, in 2001.〔(Testimony of Soraya Diase Coffelt, Attorney at Law ) at Legal Virgin Island; published April 23, 2015; retrieved July 8, 2015〕
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