Hiram Torres Rigual (July 16, 1922 – December 3, 2006) was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
He completed his bachelor's degree in Political Science and History in 1946 with high honors and in 1949 he obtained his Juris Doctor from the University of Puerto Rico School of Law.
He completed postgraduate studies at Harvard University, where he obtained a master's degree in public law in 1962.
He clerked with Supreme Court of Puerto Rico Associate Justice Borinquen Marrero upon his law school graduation in 1949 and held other government posts including over 15 years as an aide to Governors Luis Muñoz Marín and Roberto Sánchez Vilella.
He died on December 3, 2006, at age 84 in Miami, Florida, and was honored with a state funeral at the Supreme Court attended by Governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, Senate President Kenneth McClintock, House Speaker José Aponte Hernández as well as the six members of the Supreme Court.