Consuelo Madrigal

Consuelo Madrigal Martínez-Pereda is a Spanish prosecutor who currently serves as prosecutor in the Spanish Supreme Court. Previously, she served as Attorney General of Spain between January 2015 and November 2016, being the first woman to hold this position.[1][2]

This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Madrigal and the second or maternal family name is Martínez-Pereda.
The Most Excellent

Consuelo Madrigal

OSRP
88th Attorney General of Spain
In office
January 10, 2015 – November 4, 2016
Preceded byEduardo Torres-Dulce
Succeeded byJosé Manuel Maza
Personal details
Born (1956-11-02) November 2, 1956
Segovia, Spain
Alma materComplutense University of Madrid

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 Attorney General Carlos Granados.[3] She also served as the Prosecutor of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court until 2008, when she was appointed as Prosecutor for Minors Affairs in the tenure of attorney general Cándido Conde-Pumpido.[4]

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 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. Madrigal was dismissed on 4 November 2016 and José Manuel Maza took her position.[7]

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
  • Great Cross of the Order of St. Raymond of Peñafort[8]

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. "El BOE publica el cese de la fiscal general del Estado, Consuelo Madrigal". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 2016-11-05. Retrieved 2019-08-28.
  8. 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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