Noé Castañón León (15 April 1948 – 19 April 2024) was a Mexican lawyer and

jurist A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyzes and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal education in law (a law degree) and often a Lawyer, legal prac ...

. Castañón served as a Justice of the

Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (, SCJN) is the Mexican institution serving as the country's federal high court and the spearhead organisation for the judiciary of the Mexican Federal Government. Judges of the SCJN are appointed ...

from 1985 to 1995 and president of the Superior Court of Justice of Chiapas from 2006 to 2012. Castañón, the grandson of former Chiapas Governor , was born on 15 April 1948, in Berriozábal,

Chiapas Chiapas, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas, is one of the states that make up the Political divisions of Mexico, 32 federal entities of Mexico. It comprises Municipalities of Chiapas, 124 municipalities and its capital and large ...

, Mexico. He died on 19 April 2024, at the age of 76.

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