François Pillet (born 13 May 1950) is a French lawyer and politician who has served as a member of the Constitutional Council since 2019.
He served as the president of the bar association of Bourges from 1996 to 1997, in which position he wrote a book on taxation procedures titled the Practical Guide to Tax Litigation Procedures (Guide pratique de la procédure dans le contentieux fiscal).
[1] On 17 December 2007, Pillet became senator for the department of Cher after the death of his predecessor, Serge Vinçon.
In 2011, Pillet was one of the main opponents of the gathering of biometric information on the French population, arguing: "The size of this database, which could, if it had existed for years, contain 45 million people, should be very concerning to us.
[3] In 2019, Pillet was appointed to the Constitutional Council on the advice of the president of the Senate, Gérard Larcher.