Marcos Aburto

Marcos Aurelio Aburto Ochoa (born 25 May 1916 in Valdivia – 5 June 2008 in Santiago) was a Chilean lawyer who served as senator after being designated by president Eduardo Frei Ruíz-Tagle. Similarly, he was minister of the Supreme Court of Chile from 1994 to 1993, when he became its president until 1995.

Early life Aburto was the son of Manuel Aburto Aburto and Efrena Verónica Ochoa Ochoa. He studied at the Instituto Salesiano de Valdivia and then at the Liceo Fiscal de Valdivia. In 1936 he entered the University of Chile and graduated in 1941, obtaining the title of lawyer and sworn in on July 14, 1943. His thesis was titled: "De las operaciones sobre warrants: cuestiones a que ellas dan lugar" ("On operations on warrants: issues to which they give rise").

Aburto was married to Carmela Contardo Müchall and was the father of 5 children: Marcos, Manuel, Marcelo, Miguel, Mario and Jaime.

Between 1966 and 1972 he was a member of the Martial Court of Santiago and was its president on three occasions.

Between 1968 and 1970 he was minister of the Agrarian Court of Appeals of Santiago.

In August 1974, he was appointed as minister of the Supreme Court of Chile, being its president in the period 1993 and 1995.

He was a representative for seven years (until 1985) of the Supreme Court in the National Television Council, before retiring according to a recent reform in 1997 at the age of 75.

The Supreme Court of Chile appointed him to the position of institutional senator from 1998 to 2006.