Carmen Coral Rodríguez Morales, known mostly by her middle name Coral, obtained a Bachelor Degree in Science with a concentration in Applied Mathematics from the University of Puerto Rico in 1987. Worked in Information Systems with the University of Puerto Rico for five years and the United States District Court for 15 years. She obtained her Juris Doctor from the University of Puerto Rico in 2004 and is an Assistant Federal Public Defender since 2007. She has been accepted to practice in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, the First Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States.  From 2016 to 2017 worked as a Visiting Attorney Advisor in the United States Sentencing Commission in Washington D.C. laboring in different sentencing projects including the guidelines simplification. From 2017 to 2019 worked with the Defender Services Office, the national office for public defenders in Washington D.C., in the Legal and Policy Division.  During that time she worked with different projects related to CJA Panel Attorneys and represented several clients in South Korea for a prison transfer hearing. In 2019, Coral returned to the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Puerto Rico to continue the representation of indigent defendants.