For the first time in a decade, the plenary session of the Federal Court of Administrative Justice is complete

Cesar Arellano García

La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, November 4, 2025, p. 21

For the first time since the 2015 Constitutional reform, the plenary session of the Federal Court of Administrative Justice (TFJA) was made up of the 16 judges provided for in the law.

Guillermo Valls Esponda, presiding magistrate, sworn in Ariadna Camacho Contreras, Selene Cruz Alcalá, Ludmila Valentina Albarrán Acuña, Eduardo Santillán Pérez and José Ramón Amieva Gálvez, to integrate a complete plenary session.

The formal ceremony took place in the general plenary session of the upper room of the TFJA.

Valls Esponda pointed out that people who begin their responsibilities do so in times of demand and hope.

Future vision

“Demand because citizens cry out for impartial, prompt, close and understandable justice. Hope because we have women and men who will honor the magistracy that they assume today with effort, honesty and vision of the future.”

He added that “this court does not belong to those of us who make it up, it belongs to the citizens. Our high responsibility does not separate us from the people, it forces us to serve them. In that balance is our reason for being. Justice is not a privilege, it is a right and a public service. Turning it into a daily reality is the task of each and everyone present here, now as a complete team.

“Today you receive an assignment that honors and demands. Honors because it implies maximum responsibility in the field of federal administrative justice. Demands, because it does not allow complacency or delays.

“I ask you, and I ask myself, that in each case we remember the specific person behind the file; that we measure our times with the clock of those who wait for justice: that our decisions withstand the scrutiny of legal technique and ethical conscience.”