| Mariano Azuela Güitrón | |
| Office: | President of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation |
| Term Start: | 1 January 2003 |
| Term End: | 2 January 2007 |
| Predecessor: | Genaro David Góngora |
| Successor: | Guillermo Iberio Ortiz Mayagoitia |
| Office1: | Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation |
| Term Start1: | 1 February 1995 |
| Term End1: | 30 November 2009 |
| Appointer1: | Ernesto Zedillo |
| Predecessor1: | new seat |
| Successor1: | Luis María Aguilar Morales |
| Term Start2: | 10 May 1983 |
| Term End2: | 31 December 1994 |
| Appointer2: | Miguel de la Madrid |
| Predecessor2: | Raúl Lozano Ramírez |
| Successor2: | seat abolished |
| Birth Date: | 1 April 1936 |
| Birth Place: | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Education: | National Autonomous University of Mexico (LLB) |
Mariano Azuela Güitrón (born 1 April 1936 in Mexico City) is a Mexican jurist who was a member of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) from 1983 to 2009 and served as its president (chief justice) from 2003 to 2007.[1] [2] [3] [4]
Güitrón is the son of Mariano Azuela Rivera – who also served as a Minister of the Supreme Court (Associate Justice) – and María de los Dolores Güitrón Machaen; he is also the grandson of Mariano Azuela González, a prominent novelist of the Mexican Revolutionary period. He is married to Consuelo Bohigas Lomelín. Azuela graduated with a bachelor's degree in law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1959.
Azuela Güitrón served as magistrate (1971 - 1983) and president (1981) of the Fiscal Tribunal of the Federation. He was a long-serving member of the faculty at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City, which he joined in 1963.
In 1983 he joined the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation and from January 2003 to January 2006 served as its president (chief justice).