Zoila Martínez


Zoila V. Martínez Guante is a lawyer, prosecutor and diplomat from the Dominican Republic.
Martínez Guante graduated as Juris Doctor in 1967.
Martínez was prosecutor attorney of the National District, and ambassador to the Republic of Korea. As prosecutor, she was part of the investigation team that probed the murder of José Rafael Llenas Aybar in 1996. She is the Ombudsman of the Dominican Republic since 29 May 2013.
Martínez has been awarded by the Republic of Korea with the Order of Diplomatic Service Merit's Gwanghwa Medal, and by her own country with the Order of Merit of Duarte, Sánchez and Mella's Grand Cross with Silver Breast Star.