Few bet on it, but the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) has managed in a plenary session of record brevity to unanimously elect two presidents of the Chamber of the Supreme Court for the Constitutional Court. Is about Cesar Tolosasince 2020 president of the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the high court, and of Maria Luisa Segovianothe first woman in charge of another, that of the Social, from September 2020 until her retirement, on October 20.
In this way, the tradition is fulfilled by which the governing body the judges designates a magistrate of each sensibility to join the maximum guarantor of the Constitutiondespite how picturesque it was that both had been proposed by the hard core of the members elected in their day at the proposal of the PP, a original sin that has been washed away by finally getting both the unanimity of the plenary.
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For this, the change of Pablo Lucas by Maria Luisa Segoviano, as a magistrate with a progressive disposition. With it, in addition, it is possible for the Constitutional Court to approach gender parity, since it is the first time that there will be four women on the high courtsince she will join María Luisa Balaguer, Concepción Espejel and Inmaculada Montalbán. The first is in his last third of his term, so there was speculation that he could run for the presidency of the Constitutional Court, once the renewal takes place, while the other two did so in November 2021.
Segoviano was not the first judge to come to the Supreme Court, the pinnacle of Spanish justice, but she was the first to end up with the most characteristic photo of justice: that of the opening act of the judicial year, in which traditionally the presidents of the Five Chambers of the Supreme Court pose with the King. Born in Valladolid, he spent his childhood in Morocco and from his fourth year of Law he knew that he wanted to dedicate himself to workfor being a jurisdiction “very attached to reality, to everyday problems”.
She has exercised it since 1974, because before becoming a magistrate she was secretary of Labor Court in Barcelona, Palencia and Valladolid. already judge, went to Bilbao and then to Valladolid until she was appointed president of the Social Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of Castilla y León, a position she held until in 2006 he joined the Supreme.
Segoviano is also president of the Valladolid Academy of Legislation and Jurisprudence since 2016, honorary academic of the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation of Spain since 2018, and honorary academic of the Extremadura Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation since 2019.
From the Cantabrian TSJ to the Supreme Court
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For his part, Cesar Tolosa He joined the Supreme Court in 2014. He entered the judicial career in 1982. His first destinations were Molina de Aragón (Guadalajara), Arenas de San Pedro (Ávila) and Palma, where he remained until in 1984 when he was assigned to the Labor Magistracy number 1 from Santander. Four years later he was assigned to the Labor Court number 1 of Santander and in December 1989 he joined the Civil and Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of Cantabriaof which in 1993 he was appointed president.
Tolosa is the author of numerous scientific publications and a professor at the University of Cantabria since 2009. He has also been director and speaker in numerous courses of the General Council of the Judiciary, as well as other institutions. Among other activities, he is a member of the Scientific Commission of the National Congress of Health Law, has participated in the Forum of Magistrates of the Court of Justice of the European Union (Luxembourg, 2016) and in the meeting of the Consiglio di Stato of Italy-Supreme Court of Spain Third Room.