The following is a list of ministers of justice and law of Colombia. [1]
Period | Minister | Government |
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1890 | José María González Valencia [2] | Carlos Holguín Mallarino |
1892 | Luis Antonio Mesa | |
1892–1894 | Emilio Ruiz Barreto | Miguel Antonio Caro |
1946 | Arturo Tapias Pilonieta | Mariano Ospina Pérez |
1947 | Alejandro Cabal Pombo | |
1947 | Samuel Arango Reyes | |
1947 | José Antonio Montalvo | |
1948 | Samuel Arango Reyes | |
1949–1950 | Miguel San Juan | |
1950 | Pedro Manuel Arenas Osses | |
1950–1951 | Guillermo Amaya Ramirez | Laureano Gómez |
1951–1952 | Juan Uribe Holguín | |
1952–1953 | José Gabriel de la Vega | Roberto Urdaneta |
1953–1954 | Antonio Escobar Camargo | |
1954 | Gabriel París | Gustavo Rojas Pinilla |
1954–1956 | Luis Caro Escallon | |
1956 | Pedro Manuel Arenas Osses | |
1956–1957 | Luis Carlos Giraldo | |
1957 | Gral. Alfredo Duarte Blum | Junta Militar de Colombia |
1957 | José María Villareal | |
1958 | Fernando Isaza | |
1958 | Rodrigo Noguera Laborde | |
1958–1960 | Germán Zea Hernández | Alberto Lleras Camargo |
1960 | Alfredo Araújo Grau | |
1960 | Ignacio Reyes Posada | |
1960 | Eliseo Arango | |
1960 | Victor Mosquera Chaux | |
1960–1962 | Vicente Laverde Aponte | |
1962–1963 | Héctor Charry Samper | Guillermo León Valencia |
1963–1965 | Alfredo Araújo Grau | |
1965 | Raimundo Emiliani Román | |
1965–1966 | Fernando Posada de la Peña | |
1966–1967 | Hernán Salamanca | Carlos Lleras Restrepo |
1967–1968 | Darío Echandía | |
1968–1970 | Fernando Hinestrosa Forero | |
1970–1973 | Miguel Escobar Méndez | Misael Pastrana Borrero |
1973–1974 | Jaime Castro Castro | |
1974–1976 | Alberto Santofimio Botero | Alfonso López Michelsen |
1976 | Samuel Hoyos Arango | |
1976 | Víctor Renán Barco | |
1976–1978 | César Gómez Estrada | |
1978–1980 | Hugo Escobar Sierra | Julio César Turbay |
1980–1982 | Felio Andrade Manrique | |
1982–1983 | Bernardo Gaitán Mahecha | Belisario Betancur |
1983–1984 | Rodrigo Lara Bonilla (murdered in office) | |
1984–1986 | Enrique Parejo González | |
1986–1987 | José Manuel Arias Carrizosa | Virgilio Barco |
1987 | Edmundo López Gómez | |
1987 | Eduardo Suescún Monroy | |
1987–1989 | Enrique Low Murtra | |
1989–1990 | Mónica de Greiff [3] [4] | |
1990 | Roberto Salazar Manrique | |
1990–1991 | Jaime Giraldo Ángel | César Gaviria |
1991–1992 | Fernando Carrillo Flórez | |
1992–1994 | Andrés González Díaz | |
1994–1996 | Néstor Humberto Martínez | Ernesto Samper |
1996–1997 | Carlos Medellín Becerra | |
1997–1998 | Alma Beatriz Rengifo López | |
1998–1999 | Parmenio Cuéllar Bastidas | Andrés Pastrana |
1999–2002 | Rómulo González Trujillo | |
2002–2003 | Fernando Londoño Hoyos | Álvaro Uribe |
2003–2006 | Sabas Pretelt de la Vega | |
2006–2008 | Fabio Valencia Cossio | |
2008–2010 | Carlos Holguín Sardi | |
2010–2011 | Germán Vargas Lleras | Juan Manuel Santos |
2011–2012 | Juan Carlos Esguerra | |
2012–2013 | Ruth Stella Correa | |
2013–2014 | Alfonso Gómez Méndez | |
2014–2016 | Yesid Reyes Alvarado [5] [6] | |
2016–2017 | Jorge Eduardo Londoño | |
2017–2018 | Enrique Gil Botero [7] | |
2018–2019 | Gloria Maria Borrero | Ivan Duque Marquez |
2019–2020 | Margarita Cabello Blanco | |
2020–2020 | Javier Sarmiento | |
2020–2020 | Wilson Ruiz Orejuela |
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