The President of the Republic, Gustavo Petro, appointed this Tuesday the lawyer Martha Lucía Zamora Ávila as Director of the National Agency for Legal Defense of the State.
(This is the economic cabinet formed by Gustavo Petro).
Lawyer Martha Lucía Zamora was born in Bogotá and advanced her law studies at the Externado University of Colombia. She also developed a postgraduate degree in criminal law at the University of Salamanca (Spain).
in 2018 the Court of Special Jurisdiction for Peace appointed her as Executive Secretary in charge of that body and Legal Director.
At the beginning of 2016, she was appointed magistrate of the Administrative Chamber of the Superior Council of the Judiciary and later became part of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala.
Between 2014 and 2015, she served as General Secretary of the Mayor’s Office of Bogotá, with current President Gustavo Petro as Mayor.
In her extensive career in the public sector, Martha Lucía Zamora worked in the Ministry of Justice between 1989 and 1990. She alsoin March 1991 she was elected as Secretary of the Justice Commission of the National Constituent Assembly.
(Criticism for the most controversial appointments of Petro’s cabinet).
She also served as an auxiliary magistrate in the Constitutional Court and later joined the Attorney General’s Office, as a delegate before the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court.
After leaving the Prosecutor’s Office, in 2001 she served as Delegate of the Attorney General’s Office before the Supreme Court of Justice.
In 2012, Zamora was appointed Deputy Attorney General of the Nation and later served as Attorney General of the Nation, as the person in charge.
Since 2020 and until her appointment as Director of the National Agency for Legal Defense of the State, she had been collaborating as an Advisor to the Cundinamarca Agency for Peace and Coexistence for compliance with the Peace Agreement.
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