Guillermo Mendoza | |
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Acting Attorney General of Colombia | |
In office August 1, 2008 –January 11, 2011 | |
Preceded by | Mario Iguarán |
Succeeded by | Viviane Morales |
2nd Deputy Attorney General of Colombia | |
In office September 26,2006 –July 31,2008 | |
Appointed by | Mario Iguarán |
Preceded by | Jorge Armando Otálora |
Succeeded by | Martha Lucía Zamora |
Personal details | |
Born | Guillermo Ignacio Mendoza Diago June 5,1949 Cienaga de Oro,Córdoba,Colombia |
Political party | Independent (2008-present) |
Other political affiliations | Liberal (2002-2008) |
Spouse | Norah Vélez (m. 1994) |
Alma mater | University of Cartagena (LLB) |
Profession | |
Guillermo Ignacio Mendoza Diago (born June 5, 1949) is a Colombian lawyer and jurist who served as Deputy Attorney General of Colombia [1] from 2006 to 2008 and as Acting Attorney General of Colombia from 2009 to 2011, appointed by the Constitutional Court during the election process of a new Attorney General. [2] [3]
Born in Cienaga de Oro, Córdoba, he graduated in law from the University of Cartagena and served as a Mixed Judge of San Andrés from 1974 to 1976 and subsequently as a Criminal Judge of Sincelejo from 1976 to 1979. Mendoza has been the Acting Attorney General with the longest term, a total of one year. [4] [5]