María Pilar Llop Cuenca (born 3 August 1973) is a Spanish judge and politician who served as the minister of Justice of Spain and ex officio First Notary of the Kingdom from 2021 to 2023.
Born on 3 August 1973 in Madrid to a humble family; her father was a taxi-driver and her mother a hairdresser.
[5] Llop ran in the Spanish Socialist Worker's Party (PSOE) list for the 2015 Madrilenian regional election led by Ángel Gabilondo and became a member of the 10th term of the regional legislature.
She formalised the renouncement of her seat in the Assembly of Madrid on 13 July 2018,[6] as she had been appointed by the Council of Ministers presided over by Pedro Sánchez as the new Government Delegate for Gender Violence.
[7] During her time in office, Llop led efforts on reforming Spain’s insolvency law to simplify bankruptcy proceedings and meet a major condition agreed with the European Commission to obtain European Union recovery funds.