Mariano Azuela Güitrón

Mariano Azuela Güitrón (1 April 1936 – 16 May 2025) was a Mexican jurist who was a member of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) from 1983 to 2009 and served as its president (chief justice) from 2003 to 2007.^[1][2][3][4]

Mariano Azuela Güitrón
Güitrón in 2004
President of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation
In office 1 January 2003 – 2 January 2007
Preceded by	Genaro David Góngora
Succeeded by	Guillermo Iberio Ortiz Mayagoitia
Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation
In office 1 February 1995 – 30 November 2009
Appointed by	Ernesto Zedillo
Preceded by	new seat
Succeeded by	Luis María Aguilar Morales
In office 10 May 1983 – 31 December 1994
Appointed by	Miguel de la Madrid
Preceded by	Raúl Lozano Ramírez
Succeeded by	seat abolished
Personal details
Born	(1936-04-01)1 April 1936 Mexico City, Mexico
Died	16 May 2025(2025-05-16) (aged 89)
Education	National Autonomous University of Mexico (LLB)

Background

Born 1 April 1936, in Mexico City, to Mariano Azuela Rivera – who also served as a Minister of the Supreme Court (Associate Justice) – and María de los Dolores Güitrón Machaen; he was also the grandson of Mariano Azuela González, a prominent novelist of the Mexican Revolutionary period. He was married to Consuelo Bohigas Lomelín. Azuela graduated with a bachelor's degree in law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1959.

Güitrón died on 16 May 2025, at the age of 89.^[5]

Judicial career

Azuela Güitrón served as magistrate (1971–1983) and president (1981) of the Fiscal Tribunal of the Federation. He was a long-serving member of the faculty at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City, which he joined in 1963.

In 1983, he joined the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation and from January 2003 to January 2006 served as its president (chief justice).

Published books

• Derecho, Sociedad y Estado
• Suprema Corte de Justicia y el Derecho a la Vida (2002)
• El Tribunal Fiscal de la Federación, 45 años al servicio de México
• La Constitución Comentada