Mariano Azuela Güitrón

Mariano Azuela Güitrón, born in 1936 in Mexico City, was a prominent Mexican lawyer who served as the President of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation from 2003 to 2006. He had a distinguished career as a minister of the Court from 1983 to 2009 and also held positions as a magistrate and president of the Federal Tax Court. A respected academic, Azuela Güitrón contributed to legal education as a professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana. His passing was recently confirmed by the Supreme Court, which expressed condolences to his family and friends.