[2] At the time of her retirement in 2021, Cerezo was the last federal judge in active service to have been appointed to her position by President Jimmy Carter.
On March 28, 2018, Cerezo ruled in Arroyo v. Rosselló that Puerto Rico must allow transgender people to change their gender marker on their birth certificate.
They, like Linda Brown, took the steps to the courthouse to demand what is due: their right to exist, to live more and die less.
[8]In August 2018, Cerezo ordered Mora Development Corp. to pay $3 million for a Clean Water Act violation after the corporation discharged more than 29 million gallons of sewage into the municipal stormwater system and into Quilan Creek as well as discharging sewage into the La Plata River without proper treatment.
[9] She was married to Benny Frankie Cerezo, an attorney, former state legislator and political analyst until his death on April 15, 2013,[2] and is the mother of one son, a partner in a Miami law firm, and one daughter.