Supreme Court Elects Luz Adriana Camargo Garzón As Colombia’s New Attorney General

Last Tuesday, Colombia’s Supreme Court of Justice elected criminal law attorney Luz Adriana Camargo Garzón as the country’s new fiscal, or attorney general. In Colombia, the Supreme Court selects by vote candidates for Attorney General from a list of nominees submitted by the President.

Camargo has a law degree from Bogotá’s Universidad De La Sabana, and a criminal law specialization from the Universidad Libre de Colombia. She has a professional career spanning 35 years, in which she has been a criminal investigation judge, a lawyer for the Sectional Directorate of Criminal Investigation of Bogotá, and an official at the Attorney General’s Office where she was a delegate prosecutor before the criminal judges. of the circuit, assistant prosecutor and delegate prosecutor before the Supreme Court of Justice. She worked as an assistant magistrate of the Criminal Cassation Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice.

Camargo served as head of the investigation and litigation department at the UN International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala. She has been a consultant for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression and was part of the Special Monitoring Team for the precautionary measures granted for the kidnapping of three journalists in Ecuador. She provided consulting to institutions such as Consucol SAS, Corporación Justicia y Democracia, the Forjando Futuros foundations in association with Indepaz, Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz, the Colombian Commission of Jurists and the Somos Defensores Program.

Source: Colombia’s Supreme Court of Justice