Patricia Pérez Goldberg | |
Office: | Judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights |
Term Start: | 2016 |
Office2: | Minister of Justice of Chile |
Predecessor2: | Teodoro Ribera |
Successor2: | José Antonio Gómez |
President2: | Sebastián Piñera |
Birth Date: | 1974 |
Birth Place: | Santiago, Chile |
Patricia Carolina Pérez Goldberg (born 22 February 1974 in Santiago) is a Chilean lawyer and politician. From 2016, she has served as a judge at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. She was Minister of Justice (2012–2014) during President Sebastián Piñera's first government.
Pérez is daughter of a Carabineros officer and of a housewife. She grew up in Valparaíso.[1]
She studied law at Universidad de Valparaíso and later completed a Master in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. She also completed a diploma course on criminal procedure reform in 2001 at Universidad de Chile Faculty of Law.[2]