Norma Lucía Piña, first woman to preside over the Supreme Court of Mexico

The president of the Mexican Supreme Court, Norma Lucía Piña Hernández, in Mexico City after her election, January 2, 2023. AFP - -

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In Mexico, it is a first: a woman takes the head of the Supreme Court.

Norma Lucía Piña Hernández, 63, became president of the country's highest court on Monday January 2.

She received the vote of six of the eleven judges of the Court, in which she had sat since 2015. An event in this country marked by feminicides;

97% of crimes are never cleared up, according to Amnesty International.

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Norma Lucía Piña was on the front page of all the Mexican press on Tuesday.

For

or even

, she broke “

 ”.

Words spoken by the magistrate herself in her first speech as President of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJN).

Norma Lucía Piña declares that she will represent all women.

It is even, according to her, what will give her the strength to do her job.

I feel accompanied, supported, supported by all the women, by each of us.

I feel very strong because I know that we are all here, that we are standing for the first time in the heart of this plenary court.

We demonstrate and we prove to ourselves that we can do it.

Appointed to the Supreme Court in 2015, Norma Lucía Piña has been committed to women's rights in the past, including defending the right to abortion.

In her speech, she also paid tribute to " 

 ", in reference to the victims of gender violence.

A plague, in Mexico, against which she promised to fight.

►Read again: Femicide in Mexico: "97% of these crimes are never clarified"

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