[2] From 2006 until 2011, she performed as Head Public Prosecutor of the Republic for former President Hugo Chávez.
[citation needed] Gutiérrez has taught law at the Universidad Santiago Mariño and the Instituto Universitario de Tecnología Rodolfo Loero Arismendi.
[3] In August 2013 she led the court that dismissed Henrique Capriles' election appeal.
Gutiérrez presided the trial that sentenced mayor Vicencio Scarano Spisso to 10.5 months in jail for insubordination.
[10][11] The sanctions were for behaviors that undermined democracy after at least 125 people were killed in the 2017 Venezuelan protests and "in response to the government of Venezuela's deepening descent into dictatorship".