found: 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)