Yasmín Esquivel Mossa


Yasmín Esquivel Mossa is a Mexican lawyer and public official. Since 2019, she has been a minister of the National Supreme Court of Justice.

Biography

Yasmín Esquivel Mossa earned a licentiate in Law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1986 and a PhD in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid and the Universidad Anáhuac, a degree she obtained in 2000. She also did postgraduate work in administrative law and fiscal law in the Mexican financial system at Panamerican University.
As a public official, she began her career in the legal and government subdelegation of the mayor's office in Coyoacán in 1985. She was a civil servant in the office of the Attorney General of the Federal District and in the Institute of the National Housing Fund for Workers.
In the legal field, Esquivel served as study and account secretary of the presidency of the Superior Agrarian Court from 2000 to 2004. She was a magistrate of the Superior Chamber of the Court of Administrative Litigation in 2009, and was its president from 2012 to 2015.
She has been a minister of the National Supreme Court of Justice since 2019.
She is married to José María Rioboó, one of the main advisers of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on infrastructure issues, which has engendered some disapproval from opposition parties.