Guillermo Iberio Ortiz Mayagoitia

Infobox President
name=Guillermo Ortiz Mayagoitia


order= President of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation
term_start=2 January 2007
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predecessor=Mariano Azuela Güitrón
successor=incumbent
birth_date=10 February 1941
birth_place=Misantla, Veracruz
dead=alive
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death_place=
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profession=lawyer
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alma_mater= Universidad Veracruzana

Guillermo Iberio Ortiz Mayagoitia (born 10 February 1941) is a Mexican jurist and Supreme Court Justice. He is currently serving as the President (Chief Justice) of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation for the period 2 January 2007 to 31 December 2010.

Ortiz Mayagoitia, a native of Misantla, Veracruz, earned his law degree at the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa. He served the judiciary in various positions in Poza Rica and Tuxpan in his home state and as a clerk at the federal Supreme Court. He later held District Judge positions in the state of Oaxaca and the Federal District, and served as a Circuit Judge in Villahermosa, Tabasco, and Veracruz, Veracruz. In 1993 he was appointed to the appeals chamber of the Federal Electoral Tribunal.

On 27 January 1995 his Supreme Court appointment, proposed by President Ernesto Zedillo, was ratified by the Senate. He was elected Chief Justice, with seven votes out of eleven, by the Supreme Court on 2 January 2007. [ [http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/397678.html Elige Corte a Guillermo Ortiz Mayagoitia como su presidente] "El Universal", 2 Jan 2007.]

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* [http://www.scjn.gob.mx/PortalSCJN/Conoce/ConformadaScjn/Ministros/BiografiaMinistros/OrtizMayagoitiaOK.htm Ministro Presidente Guillermo I. Ortiz Mayagoitia] Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation
* [http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/397682.html Profile: Guillermo Iberio Ortiz Mayagoitia] "El Universal," 2 January 2007