Consuelo Madrigal
OSRP | |
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88th Attorney General of Spain | |
In office January 10, 2015 – November 4, 2016 | |
Preceded by | Eduardo Torres-Dulce |
Succeeded by | José Manuel Maza |
Personal details | |
Born | Segovia, Spain | November 2, 1956
Alma mater | Complutense University of Madrid |
Consuelo Madrigal Martínez-Pereda is a Spanish prosecutor who currently serves as
Career path
Madrigal studied law at the Complutense University of Madrid and graduated in 1978. She became a prosecutor in 1980 and worked at the Prosecutor's Offices of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Palencia, Madrid and in the Court of Auditors.
Madrigal served as Technical Secretary-General of the Attorney General Office during the tenure of the 85th
After the resignation of Attorney General Eduardo Torres-Dulce in December 2014, Madrigal was nominated as his replacement.[5] On 13 January 2015, she assumed office and became the first female attorney general of Spain.
In September 2016, at the opening of the
After that, she returned to her ordinary position within the Prosecution Ministry as Supreme Court' prosecutor. She is one of the Supreme Court's prosecutors responsible for the trial of Catalan independence leaders.
Honors
- Order of St. Raymond of Peñafort[8]
See also
References
- ^ Real Decreto 419/2016, de 4 de noviembre, por el que se dispone el cese de doña Consuelo Madrigal Martínez-Pereda como Fiscal General del Estado.
- ^ Consuelo Madrigal, new Attorney General of the State.
- ^ «Consuelo Madrigal, una fiscal conservadora y discreta para un tiempo convulso.»
- ^ Refuerzo de la Fiscalía de Menores y creación de un fiscal para los mayores
- ^ "El Gobierno propone a Consuelo Madrigal como nueva fiscal general del Estado". Archived from the original on 2018-06-26. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
- ^ Lesmes y Madrigal prometen mano dura con el independentismo en la apertura del año judicial
- ^ "El BOE publica el cese de la fiscal general del Estado, Consuelo Madrigal". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 2016-11-05. Retrieved 2019-08-28.
- ^ Royal Decree 632/2016 of 2 December, granting the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Raymond of Peñafort to Consuelo Madrigal Martínez-Pereda.