Milton Juica
Milton Iván Juica Arancibia (born 26 June 1943) is a Chilean lawyer, legal scholar and former judge who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Chile from 2001 to 2018 and as president of the Supreme Court from 2010 to 2012.
He also served as a member of the Election Certification Court from 2004 to 2008.
Early life
Juica attended the Liceo Gregorio Cordovez in La Serena. He subsequently studied law at the University of Chile from 1963 to 1968 and qualified as a lawyer in 1972.
Judicial career
Juica began his judicial career in 1972 as a judge in Andacollo. Two years later, he became a judge of the First Civil Court of Copiapó, where he remained until October 1976, when he was appointed a court reporter at the Court of Appeals of Punta Arenas.
In 1980, Juica was appointed a court reporter at the Supreme Court of Chile. In 1989, he was appointed a justice of the Court of Appeals of Santiago. He was appointed as a special investigating judge in two cases involving human rights violations committed during the military regime: the Caso Degollados and Operation Albania cases. In 1998, senators from the right-wing Alliance for Chile opposed his appointment to the Supreme Court.
On 12 April 2001, Juica joined the Supreme Court after being nominated by President Ricardo Lagos.
President of the Supreme Court
On 18 December 2009, Juica was elected by his fellow justices as president of the Supreme Court. He took office on 6 January 2010, succeeding Urbano Marín, and served until 6 January 2012, when he was succeeded by Rubén Ballesteros.
Juica retired from the Supreme Court on 22 June 2018, shortly before reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75.
Honours
Spain: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (4 March 2011).
Selected works
- Estudios de la Reforma Procesal (1988), with Marcos Libedinsky and Davor Harasic
- Advocatus
- Manual de Derecho Procesal Penal