Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Zoila Martínez | |
Birth Name: | Zoila Violeta Martínez Guante[1] |
Order: | 1st |
Office: | Ombudsman of the Dominican Republic |
Term End: | 14 June 2021 |
Deputy: | Carlos Hernández Cabrera |
Predecessor: | office created |
Successor: | Pablo Ulloa |
Office2: | Prosecutor of the National District |
Office3: | Dominican Republic Ambassador to the Republic of Korea |
Birth Date: | 13 July 1941 |
Birth Place: | la isabela, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
Party: | resigned from Social Christian Reformist Party after its leader Joaquin Balaguer died |
Father: | Joaquin Martinez Acevedo |
Mother: | Marina Caridad Guante |
Children: | César, Diógenes, Flor, Zoila Medina Martínez |
Alma Mater: | UASD |
Profession: | Lawyer |
Residence: | Santo Domingo |
Awards: |
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Blank1: | Ethnicity |
Blank2: | Net worth |
Zoila V. Martínez Guante is a lawyer, prosecutor and diplomat from the Dominican Republic.
Martínez Guante graduated as Juris Doctor in 1967.[2]
Martínez was prosecutor attorney of the National District, and ambassador to the Republic of Korea (South Korea).[1] As prosecutor, she was part of the investigation team that probed the murder of José Rafael Llenas Aybar in 1996.[2] She was the Ombudsman of the Dominican Republic from 29 May 2013[3] to 14 June 2021 when she was succeeded by Pablo Ulloa.
Martínez has been awarded by the Republic of Korea with the Order of Diplomatic Service Merit's Gwanghwa Medal, and by her own country with the Order of Merit of Duarte, Sánchez and Mella's Grand Cross with Silver Breast Star.[2]