José Gerardo Amorín Batlle (born 9 November 1954 in Montevideo) is an Uruguayan lawyer and politician of the Colorado Party.

[5] Raised in a political family, his father served as a minister of labour and social welfare in the first months of Juan María Bordaberry's presidency, and his uncle was Ernesto Amorín Larrañaga, a National Party politician.

[7] While completing his studies, he joined the civil service, as an official at the National Colonization Institute, and in the legal division of Work University of Uruguay.

[8] From 1986 to 1987 he served as Legal Secretary of the Board of the National Port Administration (ANP), between 1991 and 1995 as advisor to the then president of the National Administration of Power Plants and Electrical Transmissions Mario Reibakas and in 1996 as legal advisor to the management of the Banco de Previsión Social.

[9] Coming from a political family, he has been a member of the List 15 faction of the Colorado Party since he was young.