Belén del Valle Díaz

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is del Valle and the second or maternal family name is Díaz.

Belén del Valle Díaz (1943 – 19 May 2025) was a Spanish prosecutor. She was the first woman to pass the public examinations for the prosecution career in Spain.[1][2]

Life and career

Diaz was born in Cangas de Onís in 1943. After graduating in Law from the University of Oviedo, she was the first woman to pass the public examinations for the prosectuion career in Spain. This access was prohibited for women until 1966 when Law 96/1966, of 28 December, was approved, which allowed them access to both the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Judiciary. After passing the public examinations, she was assigned to her first post in the public prosecutor's career in 1974.[3][4]

Throughout her legal career, she held various positions: prosecutor in the Provincial Court of Tenerife (May 1974), Orense (December 1974) and Territorial Court of Oviedo (December 1976); lieutenant prosecutor of the Superior Court of Las Palmas (1984);  coordinating prosecutor of the High Court of Justice of Asturias; lieutenant prosecutor of the Principality of Asturias, where she remained until retirement in 2013.[5]

Del Valle Díaz was awarded the Order of Saint Raymond of Peñafor in 2005. She died on 19 May 2025, at the age of 82.[6][7]

References

  1. ^ Confilegal, Redacción (19 May 2025). "Fallece la primera mujer fiscal de la historia de España, Belén del Valle Díaz". Confilegal (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 May 2025.
  2. ^ Gaceta de Madrid (in Spanish). 1974.
  3. ^ Asturias, El Fielato y El Nora-Noticias del oriente de (19 May 2025). "Falleció Belén del Valle Díaz, la primera mujer en acceder a la carrera fiscal de España". El Fielato y El Nora - Noticias del oriente de Asturias (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 May 2025.
  4. ^ Varela, Julia; Parra, Pilar; Cubero, Alejandra Val (22 December 2016). Memorias para hacer camino: Relatos de vida de once mujeres españolas de la generación del 68 (in Spanish). Ediciones Morata. ISBN 978-84-7112-827-0.
  5. ^ "BOE-A-2005-21186 Real Decreto 1575/2005, de 23 de diciembre, por el que se nombra Teniente Fiscal de la Fiscalía del Tribunal Superior de Justicia del Principado de Asturias a doña María Belén del Valle Díaz". www.boe.es. Retrieved 26 May 2025.
  6. ^ "Esquela de Doña María Belén del Valle Díaz". esquelasdeasturias.com. Retrieved 26 May 2025.
  7. ^ Press, Europa (19 May 2025). "Muere la primera mujer fiscal en España, la asturiana Belén del Valle". www.europapress.es. Retrieved 26 May 2025.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.