María Isabel Perelló Doménech (born 18 March 1958) is a Spanish judge. Since 2009, she has served on the Supreme Court. In September 2024, she became the first woman to preside over the General Council of the Judiciary and the Supreme Court of Spain.[1][2]
Biography
Born in Sabadell[3] on 18 March 1958,[4] Isabel Perelló began her judicial career in 1985 and held posts in the Court of First Instance and Instruction of Mahón (Menorca), in the Provincial Court of Barcelona and in the High Court of Justice of Catalonia. A specialist magistrate in contentious-administrative matters, she served in the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the High Court of Justice of Andalusia in Seville (1991) and in that of the National High Court (1994). In 1993, she joined the Constitutional Court of Spain as a lawyer, a position she held until 2003.[5]
In 2022, she was a candidate for judge of the Constitutional Court. In 2024, she was elected as president of the Supreme Court and of the General Council of the Judiciary, becoming the first woman to hold this position.[1][8] She was presented as a consensus candidate, obtaining the support of 16 of the 20 members of the council.[7]
La Europa de los derechos: el Convenio Europeo de Derechos Humanos. Madrid: Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, 2005. ISBN978-84-259-1299-3