Mariano Azuela Güitrón is a Mexican

Mexican people

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 jurist

Jurist

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 who was a member of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation

Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation

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 (SCJN) from 1983 to 2009 and served as its President (Chief Justice) from 2003 to 2007.

Personal life and education

Azuela Güitrón is the son of Mariano Azuela Rivera – who also served as a Minister of the Supreme Court (Associate Justice

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) – and María de los Dolores Güitrón Machaen; he is also the grandson of Mariano Azuela González, a prominent novelist of the Mexican Revolution

Mexican Revolution

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ary period. He is married to Consuelo Bohigas Lomelín.
Azuela graduated with a bachelor's degree in law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico

National Autonomous University of Mexico

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 (UNAM) in 1959.

Judicial career

Azuela Güitrón served as magistrate (1971 – 1983) and president (1981) of the Fiscal Tribunal of the Federation. He was a long-serving member of the faculty at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City

Mexico City

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, which he joined in 1963.

In 1983 he joined the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) and from January 2003 to January 2006 he served as its President (Chief Justice).