Juan Bautista Gómez Duarte (born 29 June 1955) is a Uruguayan lawyer and prosecutor, currently serving as Attorney General of Uruguay since October 6, 2021.

[1] Juan Bautista Gómez Duarte was born on June 29, 1958, in the rural area of Tranqueras, Rivera Department.

[4] He attended Rivera Department public schools and at the age of 19 he enrolled at the University of the Republic to study law.

In 2012 he was appointed head of the Special Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime, a position in which he prosecuted well-known personalities such as the football executive Eugenio Figueredo, and the Minister of Economy of José Mujica's administration, Fernando Lorenzo.

[11] In April 2021 he was appointed Deputy Attorney General to then-incumbent Jorge Díaz Almeida, who resigned from the position in October.