| Office: | President of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation |
| Term Start: | 3 January 2011 |
| Term End: | 31 December 2014 |
| Predecessor: | Guillermo Iberio Ortiz Mayagoitia |
| Successor: | Luis María Aguilar Morales |
| Office2: | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation |
| Nominator2: | Ernesto Zedillo |
| Term Start2: | 26 January 1995 |
| Term End2: | 1 December 2015 |
| Successor2: | Javier Laynez Potisek |
| Birth Date: | 13 July 1944 |
| Birth Place: | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Education: | National Autonomous University of Mexico (LLB) |
Juan Nepomuceno Silva Meza (born 13 September 1944 in Mexico City), son of the writer Juan Silva Vega and professor Ana María Meza de Silva, is a Mexican jurist. He served as an Associate Justice (ministro) of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation since 26 January 1995, having previously served extensively elsewhere in the judiciary, including the Federal Electoral Tribunal. On 3 January 2011, he was elected Chief Justice for a term that ended on 31 December 2014.
He earned his law degree at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Ernesto Zedillo in December 1994 and ratified by the Senate in January 1995. He is considered to belong to the Court's liberal wing.[1] Silva was Chief Justice of Mexico's Supreme Court of Justice when the court received a United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights for 2013.[2]
In January 2016 he joined the Faculty of Law of UNAM.