Benny Frankie Cerezo (1943 – April 15, 2013), was an accomplished lawyer, one of the seven founding members of the Puerto Rico New Progressive Party, legislator, and a political analyst. He got his law degree from the University of Puerto Rico (in 1965), pursued constitutional law at Harvard University (summers of 1977 and 1978) and got a PhD in Administrative Constitutional Right from Spain's Universidad Complutense de Madrid (in 2002).