Isabel Perelló becomes the first woman in history to preside over the governing body of judges in Spain and the Supreme Court.
He General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), governing body of judges in Spain, has elected this Tuesday as president of the institution itself and of the Supreme Court a Isabel Perellothe first woman in history in holding those positions.
The plenary session of the CGPJ has supported Perelló’s candidacy with 16 votes in favor of the total of 20 issued. The other four went to Ana María Ferrer García. Both are judges of the Supreme Court, which has never been presided over by a woman since the judicial body was created in 1812.
Who is Isabel Perelló?
Perello (1958), affiliated with the progressive association Judges for Democracy, has been a member of the Judicial Service since 1985.
Since 1991 she has been a magistrate with a specialty in contentious-administrativearea in which she was designated for high court in 2009 after a long career that took her, among other destinations, to the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia and the National Court. She was also a lawyer in the Constitutional Court.
precisely his recognized track record has served to end up emerging as the candidate who generated the greatest consensus between the progressive and conservative ranks, despite the fact that she was not initially among the favorites.
