María José Segarra

The Most Excellent
Attorney General
María José Segarra
93rd Attorney General of Spain
Assumed office
29 June 2018
Preceded by Julián Sánchez Melgar[1]
Personal details
Born 1963
Madrid, Spain
Alma mater Autonomous University of Madrid

María José Segarra Crespo (born 1963), is a Spanish jurist, current Spanish Attorney General. She began her career in the prosecutor's office in 1987. From 2004 to 2018 she was in charge of the Prosecutor's Office of Province of Seville.

Career

She graduated in law from the Autonomous University of Madrid. She entered the fiscal career on 14 September 1987 for the Territorial Court of Province of Barcelona, serving in the courts of Sant Boi de Llobregat, Sabadell and Barcelona, as well as coordinating the Children's Service[2]. In 1993 she moved to Seville and in 2004, when she was 41 years old, she was appointed chief prosecutor of Seville with Cándido Conde-Pumpido at the head of the State Attorney General's Office[3] becoming the second youngest chief prosecutor in Spain and the third woman to reach a head in this profession[4]. She remained at the head of the Andalusian provincial prosecutor's office in the two governments of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and those of Mariano Rajoy. Was renewed for the last time in 2015 under the mandate of Consuelo Madrigal as State Attorney General[5]. At the head of this prosecutor's office, she faced trials like that of Murder of Marta del Castillo as well as coordination with the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office for the ERE and Invercaria. She has also highlighted her work creating and strengthening the group of economic crime attorneys, as well as focusing equally on strengthening the Violence against Women section.

In March 2018, she was appointed member of the Fiscal Council, occupying one of the nine seats of members of the consultative body that advises the State's public prosecutor's office[6]. During her candidacy, promoted by the Progressive Union of Prosecutors, she pointed out the importance of the deployment of the prosecutor's offices, digital development and denounced the few staff in the prosecutor's offices.

On 15 June 2018, she was appointed by the Council of Ministers to the head of the State General Prosecutor's Office, replacing Julián Sánchez Melgar who held the position for six months. The appointment of Segarra was endorsed by the General Council of the Judiciary[7]. She was named on 29 July[8] and was sworn in before the King on 3 July 2018.[9].

On 9 September 2018 it was announced that the prosecutor's office would keep the accusation of rebellion for the independentists leaders that fled or are imprisoned.[10][11]

Belongs to the Progressive Union of Prosecutors (UPF), a progressist Attorney's Union.[12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Vázquez, Ángeles; Santos, Pilar (24 November 2017). "El Gobierno elige a Julián Sánchez Melgar como nuevo fiscal general del Estado" (in Spanish). El Periódico.
  2. ↑ María José Segarra, nueva fiscal jefe de Sevilla (in Spanish)
  3. ↑ La fiscal jefe de Sevilla, María José Segarra, favorita en la carrera a la Fiscalía General del Estado (in Spanish)
  4. ↑ María José Segarra será la nueva fiscal general del Estado (in Spanish)
  5. ↑ María José Segarra, nueva fiscal general del Estado (in Spanish)
  6. ↑ María José Segarra, elegida miembro del Consejo Fiscal (in Spanish)
  7. ↑ El CGPJ avala de forma unánime la idoneidad de Segarra para ser la nueva fiscala general del Estado (in Spanish)
  8. ↑ Real Decreto 702/2018, de 29 de junio, por el que se nombra Fiscal General del Estado a doña María José Segarra Crespo. (in Spanish)
  9. ↑ María José Segarra promete su nuevo cargo como Fiscal General del Estado (in Spanish)
  10. ↑ Fiscalía mantendrá la acusación de rebelión contra los impulsores del 1-O (in Spanish)
  11. ↑ Fiscalía mantendrá la acusación de rebelión contra los líderes independentistas procesados (in Spanish)
  12. ↑ María José Segarra, reelegida como fiscal jefe de Sevilla (in Spanish)


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