Consuelo Madrigal Martínez-Pereda is a Spanish prosecutor who currently serves as

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in the

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. Previously, she served as Attorney General of Spain between January 2015 and November 2016, being the first woman to hold this position.

Career path

Madrigal studied law at the

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and graduated in 1978. She became a prosecutor in 1980 and worked at the Prosecutor's Offices of

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and in the

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. Madrigal served as Technical Secretary-General of the Attorney General Office during the tenure of the 85th

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Carlos Granados. She also served as the Prosecutor of the Criminal Chamber of the

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until 2008, when she was appointed as Prosecutor for Minors Affairs in the tenure of attorney general

Cándido Conde-Pumpido Cándido Conde-Pumpido Tourón (born September 22, 1949) is a Spanish judge who has served as President of the Constitutional Court (Spain), President of the Constitutional Court since January 2023.

. After the resignation of Attorney General Eduardo Torres-Dulce in December 2014, Madrigal was nominated as his replacement. On 13 January 2015, she assumed office and became the first female attorney general of

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. In September 2016, at the opening of the

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, she devoted part of her speech to the fight against

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and to denounce "the total disregard for the constitutional order" demonstrated by the pro-

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sectors in the autonomous community of

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. Madrigal was dismissed on 4 November 2016 and José Manuel Maza took her position. After that, she returned to her ordinary position within the Prosecution Ministry as Supreme Court' prosecutor. She is one of the Supreme Court's prosecutors responsible for the trial of Catalan independence leaders.

Honors

Great Cross of the Order of St. Raymond of PeñafortRoyal Decree 632/2016 of 2 December, granting the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Raymond of Peñafort to Consuelo Madrigal Martínez-Pereda.
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