Early Life
Medina was born in Brooklyn, New York to Joaquin Adolfo Medina and Elizabeth Fash Medina. His father was a naturalized United States citizen from Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, and his mother from New York of Dutch ancestry. Medina graduated from Holbrook Military Academy in Ossining, New York in 1905. After high school, he attended Princeton University and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with an A.B. degree in 1909. He received a L.L.B. degree from Columbia Law School, where he graduated as co-head of his class in 1912. He married Ethel Forde Hillyer in 1911.
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