Ministry of Justice and Law (Colombia)

Ministry of Justice and Law

Ministerio de Justicia y Derecho
Ministry overview
Formed	4 May 2011[1]
Preceding Ministry	Ministry of the Interior and Justice
Headquarters	Carrera 9 № 12C-10 Bogotá, D.C., Colombia 04°36′0.06″N 74°04′35.47″W / 4.6000167°N 74.0765194°W
Annual budget	COP$113,514,366,423 (2012)[2] COP$107,150,063,174 (2013)[3] COP$95,289,839,973 (2014)[4]
Ministry executives	Alfonso Gómez Méndez, Minister Piedad Amparo Zuñiga Quintero, Deputy Minister Miguel Samper Strouss, Deputy Minister
Child agencies	INPEC ANDJE SPC SNR
Website	www.minjusticia.gov.co

The Ministry of Justice and Law (Spanish: Ministerio de Justicia y Derecho), is the national executive ministry of the Government of Colombia responsible for the administration of law and justice, equivalent to the justice ministries of other countries.

In 2011, President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, as part of a wider justice reform and reshuffle of executive ministries, separated the Ministry of the Interior and Justice into two ministries as had been the case before their merger in 2002 as part of then-President Álvaro Uribe Vélez's ministerial reform.

Ministers

Order	Minister	Period
1st	Andrés González Díaz	1992–1994
2nd	Néstor Humberto Martínez Neira	1994–1996
3rd	Carlos Eduardo Medellín Becerra	1996–1997
5th	Almabeatriz Rengifo López	1997–1998
5th	Parmenio Cuéllar Bastidas	1998–1999
6th	Rómulo González Trujillo	1999–2002
-	Post abolished See Ministers of the Interior and Justice	2002-2011
7th	Juan Carlos Esguerra Portocarrero	2011–2012
8th	Ruth Stella Correa Palacio	2012-2013
9th	Alfonso Gómez Méndez	2013-present

References

1. Colombia, Congress of (4 May 2011). "Ley 1444 de 2011" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish) (Bogotá) (48,059): 2. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
2. Colombia, Congress of (14 December 2011). "Ley 1485 de 2011" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish) (Bogotá) (48,283): 5. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
3. Colombia, Congress of (10 December 2012). "Ley 1593 de 2012" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish) (Bogotá) (48,640): 5. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
4. Colombia, Congress of (11 December 2013). "Ley 1687 de 2014" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish) (Bogotá) (49,001): 7. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Retrieved 8 January 2014.