Loretta Ortiz Ahlf was sworn in this Tuesday as Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), with which the High Court will have the participation of four female ministers for the first time, since the constitutional reform of 1994.
During the solemn session of the plenary session of the highest court of the country in which the presiding minister Arturo Zaldivar imposed the ministerial gown on Loretta Ortiz, the minister assured that she will perform with independence, impartiality and autonomy.
Ortiz ahlf It endorsed its commitment to “advocate for the adoption of guaranteeing and protective criteria that give primacy to the norms that best protect people.”
Arturo Zaldivar He highlighted the training of the new minister, her vocation of service and her commitment to human rights and considered that her integration into this court “will redound to the benefit of justice.”
The plenary session unanimously approved by the members that Minister Ortiz be attached to the Second Chamber of the High Court, the SCJN detailed in a statement.
Loretta Ortiz was elected on November 23 as minister of the SCJN by the full Senate, after on November 16, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador presented the shortlist of candidates to occupy the position after the retirement of Minister José Fernando Franco González Salas.
It should be remembered that it was the third time that President López Obrador proposed Ortiz Alhlf as minister.
“I will promote transversal actions that reduce the inequality and impunity gaps in our country, question the traditional interpretations of the norms and the right from a broad approach to human rights in order to guarantee greater and better protection for all people, especially for those who are in situations of greater vulnerability “, Minister Ortiz promised.
Who is Loretta Ortiz Ahlf, the new SCJN minister?
Loretta Ortiz Ahlf She served as an advisor to the Federal Judicial Council (CJF) from November 20, 2019.
She has a degree in Law from the Escuela Libre de Derecho; member of the National System of Researchers Level III. She has a doctorate in Human Rights and European Community Law from the National Distance Education University of Spain and a Master’s in Human Rights from the Ibero-American University.
He was a member of the Drafting Group of the Constitution of Mexico City between 2016 and 2017; Federal Deputy from September 2012 to 2015, Counselor of the National Human Rights Commission from 2002 to 2006, and Legal Counsel of the Environmental Cooperation Agreement of the North American Free Trade Agreement from 1996 to 2006.
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