Enrique de Jesús Gil Botero (Fredonia, Antioquia, December 9, 1953) is a Colombian politician and lawyer, who was a Magistrate of the State Council, rapporteur of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights,[1] and a specialist in Administrative and Constitutional Law.

[3] Gil Botero is a lawyer from Antioquia, a member of the Colombian Conservative Party and the seventh Minister of Justice, in the government of President Juan Manuel Santos.

During that last year, his brother Luciano Gil Botero, an electrical engineer, who was chatting with two friends on public roads, was shot by two men on a motorcycle.

Said contracts generated a scandal, according to public opinion, because they corresponded to a consideration for the vote of the then magistrate Gil, for the continuity of Prosecutor Eduardo Montealegre in his position.

[5] On July 16, 2015, Gil Botero was elected Member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for the period 2016 - 2019, at the proposal of Colombian Foreign Minister María Ángela Holguín, before the Organization of American States.

[1] He has also stood out in the academic field, as a professor at the following universities:[4] Gil Botero did a remarkable job in the Council of State; he was elected president of the high court in 2008, with just a few months as a magistrate.

Similarly, Gil Botero condemned the Colombian state for the El Aro massacre, which occurred in the village of the same name in the municipality of Ituango, Antioquia in 1997, where 15 defenseless peasants lost their lives and others were stripped of their property and displaced from their territory.