Consuelo Madrigal

The Most Excellent
Attorney General
Consuelo Madrigal
OSRP
90th 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 (1956-11-02) November 2, 1956
Segovia, Spain
Alma mater Complutense University of Madrid

Consuelo Madrigal Martínez-Pereda is a Spanish lawyer. She acted as the Attorney General of Spai between January 2015 and November 2016, making her the first woman to hold this position. [1] [2]

Career path

Madrigal studied law at the Complutense University of Madrid and graduated in 1978. She became an attorney in 1980 and has worked at the Prosecutors Office of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Palencia, Madrid and in the Court of Accounts.

Madrigal became the Tehnical General Secretary Office's attorney during the term of senate Carlos Granados.[3] She also acted as the Attorney of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court until 2008, when she started working as an attorney in the minors chamber for Attorney General Cándido Conde-Pumpido.[4]

After the resignation of General State Attorney, Eduardo Torres-Dulce, in December 2014, Madrigal was nominated as his replacement.[5] On January 13, 2015, she took office and became the first female attorney general of Spain.

In September 2016, at the opening of the legal year, she devoted part of her speech to the fight against corruption[6] and to denounce "the total disregard for the constitutional order" demonstrated by the pro-independence sectors in the autonomous community of Catalonia.

Honors

See also

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Consuelo Madrigal, new Attorney General of the State.
  3. ↑ «Consuelo Madrigal, una fiscal conservadora y discreta para un tiempo convulso.»
  4. ↑ Refuerzo de la Fiscalía de Menores y creación de un fiscal para los mayores
  5. ↑ El Gobierno propone a Consuelo Madrigal como nueva fiscal general del Estado
  6. ↑ Lesmes y Madrigal prometen mano dura con el independentismo en la apertura del año judicial
  7. ↑ Royal Decree 632/2016 of 2 December, granting the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Raymond of Peñafort to Consuelo Madrigal Martínez-Pereda.
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