Overview

• Néstor Vargas Solano was designated president as the new body began operating to implement the 2024 overhaul of the federal judiciary.
• The OAJ announced austerity as a guiding rule with audits of every peso, reviews of all positions and transparent reassignments, and it pledged a merit-based judicial career path.
• Its first circular detailed numerous high-level designations across the PJF, noting that the majority were former candidates for judgeships who lost their races.
• Key posts went to Sergio Javier Molina at the National School for Judicial Training and Benjamín Rubio Sánchez at the Federal Public Defender’s Institute, with additional appointments across the SCJN, TEPJF and the Tribunal de Disciplina Judicial.
• Criticism surfaced over a lack of gender parity after observers noted that the slate of new directors named in the rollout consisted entirely of men.