Consuelo Madrigal
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Attorney General Consuelo Madrigal |
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| Attorney General of Spain | |
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In office January 13, 2015 – November 4, 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Eduardo Torres Dulce |
| Succeeded by | José Manuel Maza |
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November 2, 1956 Segovia, Spain |
| Alma mater | Complutense University of Madrid |
Consuelo Madrigal Martínez-Pereda is a Spanish lawyer. From January 2015 to November 2016 she was the Attorney General of Spain, being the first woman holding that office.
Madrigal studied law at the Complutense University of Madrid where she graduated in 1978. She became attorney in 1980. She has been destined at the Prosecutors Office of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Palencia and Madrid. Also in the Court of Accounts.
During the term of Carlos Granados, she was appointed Technical General Secretary Office's attorney. Until 2008, she was Attorney of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court and on 2008 she was appointed attorney of the minors chamber by the Attorney General Cándido Conde-Pumpido. In 2011, he was number 24 on the fiscal career ladder.
After the resignation of Eduardo Torres-Dulce on December 2014, the government nominated her as replacement. On January 13, 2015, she took office and became the first female attorney general of Spain.
In September 2016, in the opening of the legal year, she devoted part of her speech to the fight against corruption and to denounce "the total disregard for the constitutional order" demonstrated by the pro-independence sectors in the autonomous community of Catalonia.
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