[1] Since December 2018, he served in acting capacity in both posts, as his mandate expired at the time and the renovation of the CGPJ was blocked from then on.

In 1993 he returned to the Judicial Career, after overcoming the open tendering to specialist magistrate of the jurisdictional contentious-administrative order.

Between 1996 and 2004, he temporarily suspended its functions as judge within the judicial career switching to politics during the governments of José María Aznar,[2] serving as Director-General for Conscientious Objection (1996–2000)[4] and Director-General for Relations with the Administration of Justice (2000–2004),[5] both roles within the Ministry of Justice.

Lesmes returned in 2005 to his position in the Eighth Section of the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the National Court.

[11] He is in possession of the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Raymond of Peñafort and the gold medal awarded by the Spanish Pro-Human Rights League for his work in favor of conscientious objection.