Norma Lucía Piña Hernández
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Norma Lucía Piña Hernández (born 29 July 1960) is a Mexican lawyer, educator, and President of the
Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation ( es, Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación (SCJN) is the Mexican institution serving as the country's federal high court and the spearhead organisation for the judiciary of the Mexican Federal Go ...
since 2 January 2023, being the first woman ever to hold that position. She's been a member of the Supreme Court since 1 December 2015, replacing
Olga Sánchez Cordero Olga María del Carmen Sánchez Cordero Dávila (born 16 July 1947) is a Mexican politician and former jurist. She was the Secretariat of the Interior, Secretary of the Interior of Mexico, and the first woman to ever hold this position. She pre ...
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Education

Piña became a professor of primary-education pedagogy in 1978 at the Benemérita Escuela Nacional de Maestros, at Mexico City. She became a lawyer at the
National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...
in 1984.SCJN. (2016). Norma Lucía Piña Hernández. 17 April 2017, de SCJN Web site: https://www.scjn.gob.mx/ministro/norma-lucia-pina-hernandez She became a specialist in social psychology and communication at the National Institute of Communication Science, in Madrid in 1978, tuition paid by the Secretary of Public Education. Piña became a specialist in constitutional and administrative law at the postgraduate level at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1986. She earned her doctorate in law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1986, becoming a judicial specialist at the Institute of Judicial Specialization of the Supreme Court of Justice in 1989. Piña is a criminal law specialist, with a certificate from the
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in Mexico City in 1997.García, C. (2015). Perfil. Norma Lucía Piña Hernández. 17 April 2017, de El Universal Sitio web: http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/nacion/sociedad/2015/11/13/perfil-norma-lucia-pina-hernandez She took courses on human rights at the Institute of the Federal Judiciary, and also she specializes in judicial argumentation, earning a certificate at the post-graduate division at the University of Alicante in Spain, on 2010.


Career

Prior being a Supreme Court justice, Piña worked at the Manuel M. Acosta Pedogeological Experimentation Elementary School at the Meritorious National School of Teachers. She worked at the Institute of Judicial Investigations at the National Autonomous University,Senado. (2015). Norma Lucía Piña Hernández. 17 April 2017, de Senado de la República Sitio web: http://www.senado.gob.mx/comisiones/justicia/docs/Ministros/NLPH.pdf and as a legal opinion drafter for the Third Collegiate Administrative Court for the First Circuit from 1988 to 1992. She worked as a clerk for the Supreme Court of Justice from 1992 to 1998, and she was a judge for the third district of the State of Morelos from 1998 to 2000. Piña worked as a judge of Federal District for the Administrative Courts in 2000. She was an opposition Circuit Magistrate at September 2000. She was also a Magistrate for the Administrative Court. She was a First Circuit Magistrate for the Twentieth Court for the Administrative Courts. Today, she is a Supreme Court justice, as a president of the Primera Sala (First Hall).


Designation as a Supreme Court justice

After two failed attempts to reach the highest rank in Mexican Judiciary, Piña became the eleventh woman to reach the position. She came to the Supreme Court of Justice to replace Olga Sánchez Cordero. She appeared in front of the
Mexican Senate The Senate of the Republic, ( es, Senado de la República) constitutionally Chamber of Senators of the Honorable Congress of the Union ( es, Cámara de Senadores del H. Congreso de la Unión), is the upper house of Mexico's bicameral Congres ...
showing a formalist profile regarding her interpretation of philosophy, saying that there are no absolute values in law. Piña was appointed as a justice after her appearance on the Senate on 24 November 2015, after the two previous failed attempts, after being part of the judiciary for 27 years. On 28 September 2016, Piña was chosen by her colleagues as the president of the Primera Sala (First Hall) after the justices voted unanimously. She substituted the justice Alfredo Gutiérrez Ortiz Mena, who was in charge to review the criminal and civil jurisprudence cases. She is president from 1 October 2016, to 30 September 2018.Álvarez, J. (2016). Norma Lucía Piña, nueva presidenta de la Primera Sala de la SCJN. 17 April 2017, de El Universal Sitio web: http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/nacion/seguridad/2016/09/28/norma-lucia-pina-nueva-presidenta-de-la-primera-sala-de-la-scjn


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