Overview

• The Órgano de Administración Judicial was formally installed with Néstor Vargas Solano selected by insaculación to serve a two-year inaugural presidency.
• Surit Berenice Romero Domínguez, Lorena Josefina Pérez Romo, Catalina Ramírez Hernández and José Alberto Gallegos Ramírez joined Vargas for six-year, nonrenewable terms with a rotating presidency.
• Immediate assignments include building the Poder Judicial de la Federación budget for submission to the Finance Ministry and assigning new judges and magistrates to their posts.
• Leaders pledged austerity and transparency, with Vargas promising an end to privileges and opaqueness and with a reported plan from the Court’s president to task the body with salary and benefit cuts for senior officials.
• By constitutional mandate the OAJ oversees budget execution, personnel and court structure, manages the judicial career through the training school and public defender institute, and provides protection for judges at risk with a ban on unauthorized fideicomisos.