Sergio García Ramírez
Ramírez in 2019
President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
In office
2004–2007
Preceded byAntônio Augusto Cançado Trindade
Succeeded byCecilia Medina Quiroga
Judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
In office
1997–2009
Preceded byHéctor Fix Zamudio
Attorney General of Mexico
In office
1 December 1982 – 30 November 1988
PresidentMiguel de la Madrid
Preceded byÓscar Flores Sánchez
Succeeded byEnrique Álvarez del Castillo
Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare
In office
28 December 1981 – 30 November 1982
PresidentJosé López Portillo
Preceded byJavier García Paniagua
Succeeded byArsenio Farell Cubillas
Personal details
Born(1938-02-01)1 February 1938
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Died10 January 2024(2024-01-10) (aged 85)
Mexico City
Political partyInstitutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
Alma materNational Autonomous University of Mexico
UNAM (Juris Doctor)
WebsiteOfficial website

Sergio García Ramírez (1 February 1938 – 10 January 2024) was a Mexican jurist and politician who served as a judge at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights from 1997 to 2009.[1]

Born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, García Ramírez undertook his university studies at the school of law of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City. He obtained his bachelor's degree in 1963 with an honorable mention, and he obtained his Ph.D. in 1971, receiving the first magna cum laude awarded for a UNAM Ph.D. in law. He was an official investigator in the Institute of Juridical Investigations and an official professor in the School of Law of the same university. He was a National Investigator, level III, in the National System of Investigators. From 1993 he was a member of the Governing Board of the UNAM.

García Ramírez was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) from 1961. Although he was never elected to public office, he occupied different positions under the PRI regime and served in the cabinet of President José López Portillo as Secretary of Labor (1981–1982) and then in the cabinet of President Miguel de la Madrid as Attorney General (1982–1988).[2] In 1988 he lost the PRI internal bid for the party presidential candidacy against Carlos Salinas de Gortari.

García Ramírez died in Mexico City on 10 January 2024, at the age of 85.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Falleció Sergio García Ramírez, jurista mexicano que fue presidente de la CorteIDH". Proceso. 10 January 2024. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
  2. ↑ "Shots Fired At Mexican Police Looking For Bodies". Toledo Blade. 4 November 1985. p. 2. Retrieved 6 August 2011.
  3. ↑ Muere Sergio García Ramírez, jurista e investigador emérito de la UNAM (in Spanish)
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