Zarela Villanueva Monge

Zarela Villanueva Monge Is a Costa Rican magistrate, and President of the Supreme Court of Justice in Costa Rica.

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Native of Cartago, she is daughter of the liberacionista politician thrice deputy Jorge Luis Villanueva Badilla. Villanueva graduated from law school at the University of Costa Rica and was president of the Student Law Association between 1975 and 1976. She is specialist in Agricultural Law and has a postgraduate degree in Social and Familiar Violence from the UNED.

She was a judge in Turrialba in 1976, fiscal agent in Heredia, investigative judge and fiscal agent in Paraiso of Cartago until 1979, judge of the Civil instance and Work in Cartago until 1987 and afterwards she was judge at a higher court. In 1989 she was appointed magistrate of the Second Court and was in charge of reviewing the labor and familiar processes. Afterwards in 2010 she was appointed vice-president of the Supreme Court of Justice and president after the death of the president Luis Paulino Dwells Muslim, until she was chosen as president by the plenary of the Court in May 2013, making her the first woman president of the Judicial Power in the history costarricense.

His brother Luis Gerardo Villanueva Monge has been deputy and president of Congress, member of the National Liberation Party.

Villanueva was inducted into La Galería de las Mujeres de Costa Rica (The Costa Rican Gallery of Women) in 2007.