Hugo Aguilar

Hugo Aguilar Ortiz (born 1 April 1973) is a Mexican lawyer of Mixtec heritage. A native of the state of Oaxaca, he is the President of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation after the 2025 Mexican judicial elections of 1 June 2025.

Professional career Hugo Aguilar Ortiz was born in Villa Guadalupe Victoria, in the Oaxacan municipality of San Miguel El Grande, in 1973. He holds a law degree from the Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca (UABJO).

In 1996, he was a member of the advisory panel that assisted the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in drafting a series of constitutional amendments on indigenous rights.

Aguilar Ortiz was nominated by the federal executive to contend in the judicial elections held on 1 June 2025.

Hugo Aguilar has faced the rejection of indigenous peoples who point him out for bureaucratizing and legitimizing adverse possession or squatting, imposing the Fourth Transformation regime's megaprojects and silencing victims of harassment.