| Post: | President of the Legislative Assembly |
| Body: | Costa Rica |
| Insignia: | Coat of arms of Costa Rica.svg |
| Insigniasize: | 125px |
| Insigniacaption: | Coat of arms of Costa Rica |
| Incumbent: | Rodrigo Arias Sánchez |
| Incumbentsince: | 1 May 2022 |
| Termlength: | One year |
| Inaugural: | Manuel Aguilar Chacón |
| Formation: | 1824 |
The president of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica is the presiding officer of that legislature.
| President | Tenure | Party | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Federal Republic of Central America | ||||||||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Manuel Aguilar Chacón | align=center | 1824 November – 1825 January | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Agustín Gutiérrez y Lizaurzábal | align=center | 1824 September – November | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Cecilio Umaña Fallas | align=center | 1825 April – May | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Manuel Alvarado Hidalgo | align=center | 1825 January – February | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Manuel Alvarado Alvarado | align=center | 1825 February – April | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Pedro Zeledón Mora | align=center | 1825 June – November | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Félix Romero Castro | align=center | 1825 November – December | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | José María Arias Zamora | align=center | 1826 January – February | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Joaquín Rivas Ramírez | align=center | 1826 March – May | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Francisco Javier Alfaro Zamora | align=center | 1826 May – August | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | José Antonio Castro Ramírez | align=center | 1827 May – June | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Braulio Carrillo Colina | align=center | 1828 March | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | José Joaquín Flores Pérez | align=center | 1828 September | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Manuel María Peralta del Corral | align=center | 1829 November – 1830 February | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Luciano Alfaro Arias | align=center | 1830 May – June | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | José María Esquivel Azofeifa | align=center | 1830 May – June | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Rafael Francisco Osejo | align=center | 1831 January – April | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | José Gabriel Campo Guerrero | align=center | 1831 July – August | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | José Nereo Fonseca González | align=center | 1831 May – June | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | José Francisco Peralta del Corral | align=center | 1832 setiembre – December | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | José Andrés Rivera | align=center | 1834 March – April | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Manuel Antonio Bonilla Nava | align=center | 1836 August – December | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Francisco Javier Sáenz Ulloa | align=center | 1836 January – February | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Miguel Alfaro Saborío | align=center | 1837 January – February | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | José Julián Blanco Zamora | align=center | 1837 March – April | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Francisco María Oreamuno Bonilla | align=center | 1837 March – April | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Félix Sancho Alvarado | align=center | 1837 September – 1838 May | align=center | |||
| Free State of Costa Rica | ||||||||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Juan Mora Fernández | align=center | 1843 August – December | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Juan de los Santos Madriz Cervantes | align=center | 1843 June – August | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Félix Sancho Alvarado | align=center | 1844 January – May | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Rafael Ramírez Hidalgo | align=center | 1844 July – November | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | José María Castro Madriz | align=center | 1845 November 1844 – December | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Juan Rafael Reyes Frutos | align=center | 1846 December – 1846 February | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Manuel José Carazo Bonilla | align=center | 1846 March – June | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Nazario Toledo | align=center | 1846 September – 1847 May | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | José María Alfaro Zamora | align=center | 1847 May – September | align=center | |||
| First Costa Rican Republic | ||||||||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Juan Rafael Mora Porras | align=center | 1847 November – 1848 June | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Manuel José Carazo Bonilla | align=center | 1848 September – 1849 December | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Francisco María Oreamuno Bonilla | align=center | 1850 January – 1856 May | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Rafael García-Escalante Nava | align=center | 1857 October – 1858 August | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | José María Castro Madriz | align=center | 1859 October – December | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Julián Volio Llorente | align=center | 1860 – 1863 | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Manuel José Carazo Bonilla | align=center | 1860 – 1861 | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Rafael Ramírez Hidalgo | align=center | 1861 – 1862 | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Manuel José Carazo Bonilla | align=center | 1862 – 1863 | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Napoleón Escalante Navas | align=center | 1863 May – August | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Rafael Ramírez Hidalgo | align=center | 1863 May – August | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Joaquín Bernardo Calvo Rosales | align=center | 1864 – 1867 | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Francisco María Iglesias Llorente | align=center | 1864 – 1865 | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | José María Montealegre Fernández | align=center | 1867 – 1868 | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Francisco María Iglesias Llorente | align=center | 1867 – 1868 | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Juan José Ulloa Solares | align=center | 1869 January – February | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Francisco Echeverría Alvarado | align=center | 1869 May – 1870 April | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Manuel Antonio Bonilla Nava | align=center | 1869 – 1876 | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Víctor Guardia Gutiérrez | align=center | 1882 – 1883 | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Juan Manuel Carazo Peralta | align=center | 1883 – 1886 | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Aniceto Esquivel Sáenz | align=center | 1886 – 1889 | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Manuel Aragón Quesada | align=center | 1889 – 1890 | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Francisco María Iglesias Llorente | align=center | 1890 – 1892 | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Carlos Durán Cartín | align=center | 1892 | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Pedro María León-Páez y Brown | align=center | 1894 – 1900 | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Francisco María Iglesias Llorente | align=center | 1900 – 1903 | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno | align=center | 1900 – 1903 | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Mauro Fernández Acuña | align=center | 1904 – 1905 | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Federico Tinoco Iglesias | align=center | 1905 – 1908 | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Juan Bautista Quirós Segura | align=center | 1905 – 1908 | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno | align=center | 1909 – 1910 | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Ezequiel Gutiérrez Iglesias | align=center | 1910 – 1913 | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Máximo Fernández Alvarado | align=center | 1913 – 1914 | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Leonidas Pacheco Cabezas | align=center | 1914 – 1916 | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Máximo Fernández Alvarado | align=center | 1916 – 1917 | align=center | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Daniel Núñez Gutiérrez | align=center | 1917 – 1918 | align=center | |||
| align=center | Leonidas Pacheco Cabezas | align=center | 1917 April – June | align=center | Peliquista Party | |||
| align=center | José Astúa Aguilar | align=center | 1917 – 1918 | align=center | Peliquista Party | |||
| align=center | Rafael Calderón Muñoz | align=center | 1917 – 1918 | align=center | Peliquista Party | |||
| align=center | Francisco Faerron Suárez | align=center | 1918 – 1919 | align=center | Peliquista Party | |||
| align=center | José Astúa Aguilar | align=center | 1919 | align=center | Peliquista Party | |||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Arturo Volio Jiménez | align=center | 1920 – 1925 | align=center | Republican Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | León Cortés Castro | align=center | 1925 – 1926 | align=center | Republican Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Arturo Volio Jiménez | align=center | 1926 – 1929 | align=center | Republican Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Alejandro Alvarado Quirós | align=center | 1929 – 1930 | align=center | Republican Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Oscar Rohrmoser Carranza | align=center | 1929 – 1930 | align=center | Republican Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Rafael Calderón Muñoz | align=center | 1931 – 1932 | align=center | National Republican Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Arturo Volio Jiménez | align=center | 1932 – 1935 | align=center | National Republican Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Ricardo Castro Beeche | align=center | 1935 – 1936 | align=center | National Republican Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Juan Rafael Arias Bonilla | align=center | 1936 – 1938 | align=center | National Republican Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia | align=center | 1938 – 1940 | align=center | National Republican Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Otto Cortés Fernández | align=center | 1940 – 1941 | align=center | Democratic Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Teodoro Picado Michalski | align=center | 1941 – 1944 | align=center | National Republican Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | José Albertazzi Avendaño | align=center | 1944 – 1945 | align=center | National Republican Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Rafael Ángel Grillo Ocampo | align=center | 1944 – 1945 | align=center | National Republican Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Francisco Fonseca Chamier | align=center | 1946 – 1948 | align=center | National Republican Party | ||
| Second Costa Rican Republic | ||||||||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Marcial Rodríguez Conejo | align=center | 1949 – 1952 | align=center | National Union Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Abelardo Bonilla Baldares | align=center | 1952 – 1953 | align=center | National Union Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Gonzalo Facio Segreda | align=center | 1953 – 1956 | align=center | National Liberation Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Otto Cortés Fernández | align=center | 1956 – 1958 | align=center | National Liberation Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Álvaro Montero Padilla | align=center | 1958 – 1960 | align=center | National Union Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Fernando Lara Bustamante | align=center | 1960 – 1961 | align=center | National Union Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Mario Leiva Quirós | align=center | 1961 – 1962 | align=center | National Union Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Carlos Espinach Escalante | align=center | 1962 – 1963 | align=center | National Liberation Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Rafael París Steffens | align=center | 1963 – 1964 | align=center | National Liberation Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Rodolfo Solano Orfila | align=center | 1964 – 1965 | align=center | National Liberation Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Rafael París Steffens | align=center | 1965 – 1966 | align=center | National Liberation Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Rodrigo Carazo Odio | align=center | 1966 – 1967 | align=center | National Liberation Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Hernán Garrón Salazar | align=center | 1967 – 1968 | align=center | National Liberation Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Fernando Volio Jiménez | align=center | 1968 – 1969 | align=center | National Liberation Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | José Luis Molina Quesada | align=center | 1969 – 1970 | align=center | National Liberation Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Daniel Oduber Quirós | align=center | 1970 – 1973 | align=center | National Liberation Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Luis Alberto Monge Álvarez | align=center | 1973 – 1974 | align=center | National Liberation Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Alfonso Carro Zúñiga | align=center | 1974 – 1977 | align=center | National Liberation Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Elías Soley Soler | align=center | 1977 – 1978 | align=center | National Liberation Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Rodrigo Madrigal Nieto | align=center | 1978 – 1979 | align=center | Unity Coalition | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Ramón Aguilar Facio | align=center | 1979 – 1980 | align=center | Unity Coalition | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Rafael Grillo Rivera | align=center | 1980 – 1981 | align=center | Unity Coalition | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Cristian Tattenbach Iglesias | align=center | 1981 – 1982 | align=center | Unity Coalition | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Hernán Garrón Salazar | align=center | 1982 – 1983 | align=center | National Liberation Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Jorge Luis Villanueva Badilla | align=center | 1983 – 1984 | align=center | National Liberation Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Bernal Jiménez Monge | align=center | 1984 – 1985 | align=center | National Liberation Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Guillermo Vargas Sanabria | align=center | 1985 – 1986 | align=center | National Liberation Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Rosemary Karspinsky Dodero | align=center | 1986 – 1987 | align=center | National Liberation Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Fernando Volio Jiménez | align=center | 1987 – 1988 | align=center | National Liberation Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | José Luis Valenciano Chaves | align=center | 1988 – 1989 | align=center | National Liberation Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Allen Arias Angulo | align=center | 1989 – 1990 | align=center | National Liberation Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Juan José Trejos Fonseca | align=center | 1990 – 1991 | align=center | Social Christian Unity Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría | align=center | 1991 – 1992 | align=center | Social Christian Unity Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Roberto Tovar Faja | align=center | 1992 – 1993 | align=center | Social Christian Unity Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Danilo Chaverri Soto | align=center | 1993 – 1994 | align=center | Social Christian Unity Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Alberto Cañas Escalante | align=center | 1994 – 1995 | align=center | National Liberation Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Antonio Álvarez Desanti | align=center | 1995 – 1996 | align=center | National Liberation Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Jorge Walter Coto Molina | align=center | 1996 – 1997 | align=center | National Liberation Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Saúl Weisleder Weisleder | align=center | 1997 – 1998 | align=center | National Liberation Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Luis Fishman Zonzinski | align=center | 1998 – 1999 | align=center | Social Christian Unity Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Carlos Vargas Pagán | align=center | 1999 – 2000 | align=center | Social Christian Unity Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Rina Contreras López | align=center | 2000 – 2001 | align=center | Social Christian Unity Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Ovidio Pacheco Salazar | align=center | 2001 – 2002 | align=center | Social Christian Unity Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Rolando Laclé Castro | align=center | 2002 – 2003 | align=center | Social Christian Unity Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Mario Redondo Poveda | align=center | 2003 – 2004 | align=center | Social Christian Unity Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Gerardo González Esquivel | align=center | 2004 – 2006 | align=center | Social Christian Unity Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Francisco Antonio Pacheco Fernández | align=center | 2006 – 2010 | align=center | National Liberation Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Luis Gerardo Villanueva Monge | align=center | 2010 – 2011 | align=center | National Liberation Party | ||
| bgcolor=gold | align=center | Juan Carlos Mendoza García | align=center | 2011 – 2012 | align=center | Citizens' Action Party | ||
| bgcolor= | Víctor Emilio Granados Calvo | 2012 – 2013 | Accessibility without Exclusion | |||||
| bgcolor= | Luis Fernando Mendoza Jiménez | 2013 – 2014 | National Liberation Party | |||||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Henry Mora Jiménez | align=center | 2014 – 2015 | align=center | Citizens' Action Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Rafael Ortiz Fábrega | align=center | 2015 – 2016 | align=center | Social Christian Unity Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Antonio Álvarez Desanti | align=center | 2016 – 2017 | align=center | National Liberation Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Gonzalo Alberto Ramírez Zamora | align=center | 2017 – 2018 | align=center | Costa Rican Renewal Party | ||
| bgcolor= | align=center | Carolina Hidalgo Herrera | align=center | 2018 – 2019 | align=center | Citizens' Action Party | ||
| bgcolor= | Carlos Ricardo Benavides Jiménez | 2019 – 2020 | National Liberation Party | |||||
| bgcolor= | Eduardo Cruickshank Smith | 2020 – 2021 | National Restoration Party | |||||
| bgcolor= | Silvia Hernández Sánchez | 2021 – 2022 | National Liberation Party | |||||
| bgcolor= | Rodrigo Arias Sánchez | 2022 – 2024 | National Liberation Party | |||||