Norma Lucía Piña Hernández (born 29 July 1960)[1] is a Mexican lawyer, educator, and President of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation from 2023 to 2024, being the first woman ever to hold that position.
[3] She took courses on human rights at the Institute of the Federal Judiciary, and also she specializes in judicial argumentation, earning a certificate at the post-graduate division at the University of Alicante in Spain, on 2010.
[3] She worked at the Institute of Judicial Investigations at the National Autonomous University,[5] and as a legal opinion drafter for the Third Collegiate Administrative Court for the First Circuit from 1988 to 1992.
[7] Piña was appointed as a justice after her appearance on the Senate on 24 November 2015, after the two previous failed attempts, after being part of the judiciary for 27 years.
She substituted the justice Alfredo Gutiérrez Ortiz Mena, who was in charge to review the criminal and civil jurisprudence cases.