The Attorney General of El Salvador, officially the Attorney General of the Republic (; abbreviated FGR), is a permanent and independent office under the Public Ministry which possesses legal and administrative autonomy.
The Attorney General's mission is "to promote and assist with gender equity the defense of the family, the people and interests of minors, the disabled and the elderly, grant legal assistance, preventive psychosocial care and mediation and conciliation services, judicially and extrajudicially represent people, especially those with few economic resources in defense of individual freedom, labor rights, family and real and personal rights." The Attorney General is elected by the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of El Salvador for a period of three years (with the possibility of being re-election).
List of attorneys general
Attorney General Assumed office Left office 1 Patrocinio Guzmán Trigueros February 1940 July 1940 2 José Lázaro Arévalo Vasconcelos October 1940 9 May 1944 3 Francisco Guillermo Pérez May 1944 21 October 1944 4 Manuel Humberto Rivera October 1944 May 1945 5 Alberto Gómez Zárate May 1945 14 December 1948 6 Julio Eduardo Jiménez Castillo December 1948 October 1950 7 Francisco Guillermo Pérez October 1950 January 1951 8 Juan Gregorio Guardado January 1951 August 1951 9 Salvador Araujo (interim) August 1951 September 1951 10 Francisco Guillermo Pérez (ad honorem) September 1951 May 1952 11 Rogelio Bustamante April 1952 January 1954 12 Salvador Alemán Echeverría (interim) February 1954 May 1954 13 Rogelio Bustamante June 1954 26 October 1960 14 Doctor Pedro Benjamín Mancía October 1960 February 1961 15 Carlos Alberto Zaldívar February 1961 January 1962 16 Julio Rank Altamirano 25 January 1962 July 1963 17 Pedro Benjamín Mancía July 1963 January 1966 18 Juan Doño Altamirano January 1966 December 1966 19 Óscar Augusto Cañas Molina 1966 1 June 1967 20 Yolanda Myers de Vásquez 1 June 1967 1 June 1972 21 Óscar Rodríguez Díaz 1 June 1972 1 June 1977 22 Guillermo Rodolfo Walsh 1 June 1977 15 October 1979 23 Alfredo del Tránsito Monge 1979 1979 24 Doctor Mario Zamora Rivas 1980 3 March 1980 25 Manuel Francisco Cardona Herrera 1980 1981 26 Carlos Mauricio Molina Fonseca January 1981 2 May 1982 27 Dina Castro de Callejas 1982 1984 28 Rafael Flores y Flores 1984 1987 29 Francisco Cardona Herrera 1987 1989 30 Rhina Escalante de Rey Prendes 1989 1990 31 José Vicente Machado Salgado 1990 1993 32 Lázaro Tadeo Bernal 1993 1993 33 Simón Isidro Rivera Argueta 1993 1996 34 Miguel Ángel Cardoza Ayala 1996 2003 35 Belisario Amadeo Artiga Artiga 2003 2006 36 Félix Garrid Safie Parada 2006 19 April 2009 37 Ástor Escalante Saravia 20 April 2009 September 2009 38 Romeo Benjamín Barahona Meléndez September 2009 2012 39 Luis Antonio Martínez González 2012 2015 40 Douglas Arquímedes Meléndez Ruiz 6 January 2016 6 January 2019 41 Raúl Ernesto Melara Morán 6 January 2019 1 May 2021 42 Rodolfo Antonio Delgado Montes 2 May 2021 Incumbent
See also
Justice ministry Politics of El Salvador
References