Elections for the presidency of the Judiciary are always a package of surprises. This one was even more spectacular. The Chief Justice Janet Tello Gilardi She was elected president of the Judiciary, for the period 2025-2026, in the first round, surprising her competitors. Nobody expected such a devastating and overwhelming victory.
Tello obtained 10 votes from the 18 titular supreme judges who participated in the Plenary Chamber. Magistrate Manuel Lujánwho appeared to be the favorite of the “predictions”, came second with five votes and Carlos Arias Lazarte got three.
The vote is secret. But, according to various sources, the new president of the Judiciary managed, with the support of the former president of the PJ, Elvia Barriosnuclear in his favor, the vote of five of the six women of the Supreme Court.
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This means that he obtained six votes from the nine veteran judges and four from the nine young supreme judges, among them that of judges Carlos Calderón Puertas and Ramiro Bustamante.
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She is therefore an elected president who has the support of the generation that is close to retiring, and of a good part of the young people, who have just arrived at the Supreme Court.
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Tello is the second woman to become president of the Judiciary in the last five years. The first female president of the Peruvian judicial system was the titular supreme judge Elvia Barrios Alvarado, in the period 2021-2022. Now, Tello will be in 2025-2026.
The presence of women on the Supreme Court has grown considerably. Until 10 years ago, there was only one titular supreme judge, Elcira Vásquez. Today the Judiciary has six titular supreme magistrates and a female president.
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Janet Tello does not arrive alone. Of the 34 presidents of Superior Courts that were elected this same day, seven are women. The superior judge Miluska Cano López in LimaHilda Piedra Rojas in South Lima, Poland Fernández Concha in East Lima, Jenny Bazán Escalante in the Central Jungle, Elcira Farfán Quispe in Cusco, Ana Vásquez Bustamante in Puente Piedra – Ventanilla and, Cecilia León Velásquez in La Libertad.
León Velásquez is also the first female president of the Superior Court of Justice of La Libertad, in its 200 years of existence.
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In her first public statement, after being elected, Dr. Tello spoke that she will carry out a “collegiate management” that will promote the unity, solidity and firmness of the Plenary Chamber of the Supreme Court, to place the Judiciary in constitutional equivalence with the others. two powers of the State.
Who is Tello Gilardi?
Janet Tello Gilardi is a judge with more than 40 years of service in the judiciary who, since her time at the Superior Court of Justice of Lima, has built a humanist and professional line in defense of human rights, women’s equality, social inclusion and access to justice for all citizens without any discrimination.
She was one of the founders of the Association of Judges for Justice and Democracyan institution that was born in the ’90s to defend the judicial independence and autonomy of judges, against the political power that sought to overwhelm them.
“Dr. Tello is an inspiring figure in our justice system, bravely facing challenges and showing that transformative leadership is not only necessary but possible. Their dedication and commitment are an example and encouragement for all women who, like us, work in the judiciary with the firm purpose of building a more just and equitable country,” stated the Peruvian Association of Women Judges.
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She is also founder of the Board of Directors of the Pan-American Committee of Judges for Social Rights and Franciscan Doctrine, created by Pope Francis, and a member of the America chapter of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges.
In the Supreme Court, Tello Gilardi has encouraged the country’s highest judicial body to hold decentralized hearings outside of Lima. In the Constitutional Chamber he promoted the issuance of “source rulings” that make it possible to evaluate and resolve in a single resolution and in a short time, various similar processes.
What awaits the Judiciary?
The elected president of the Judiciary recalled that she has 135 work proposals that she will begin to implement since she assumes the presidency, on January 2, 2025, among which is continuing the implementation of the Electronic Judicial File and the United Flagrancy, to national level and in all specialties.
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But, perhaps, its main task is the defense of the independence and autonomy of the judicial system against a Congress of the Republic that wants to subject all the powers of the State and autonomous institutions to its designs and interests.
An intelligent and capable person, like her, knows that not only a lot of jurisdictional work awaits her, but also a complicated relationship with other powers and a society that distrusts public institutions. Hence, also, his words of unity. You will need everyone’s support to meet your goals.
Presidents of Superior Courts 2025-2026
Ancash: Nilton Moreno Merino
Ayacucho: Orlando Becerra Suárez
Amazonas: Norberto Cabrera Barrantes
Tumbes: Otto Verapinto Márquez.
Piura: David Correa Castro
Ucayali: Hermógenes Lima Chayña.
Huaura: Javier Herrera Villar
Cajamarca: Ricardo Sáenz Pascual
Lima: Miluska Cano López
South Lima: Hilda Piedra Rojas
Northern Lima: Juan Carlos Santillán Tuesta
East Lima: Poland Fernández Concha
Callao: Miguel Castañeda Moya
Puno: Benny Álvarez Quiñonez
Huánuco: Alberto Alain Berger Vigueras
Huancavelica: Jaime Contreras Ramos
Sullana: Yone Pedro Li Córdova
Apurímac: José Alberto Tinco Luján
Loreto: Reynaldo Elías Cajamarca Porras
Tacna: Renzo Medina Chávez
From Santa: Óscar Ramiro Pérez Sánchez
Arequipa: Nicolás Iscarra Pongo
Ica: Eulogio Cáceres Monzon
Lambayeque: César Bravo Llaque
Central Jungle: Jenny Bazán Escalante
Cusco: Elcira Farfan Quispe
Freedom: Cecilia León Velásquez
Piedra-Ventanilla Bridge: Ana Vásquez Bustamante
Junín: Edwin Ricardo Corrales Melgarejo
Mother of God: Marino Cusimayta Barreto
San Martín: Edward Sánchez Bravo
Moquegua: Jorge Fernández Caballos
Pasco: Ricardo del Pozo Moreno
Cañete: Francisco Ruiz Cochachin
National Criminal Court: Jhonny Contreras Cuzcano
