Núria de Gispert

The Right Honourable
Núria de Gispert
CdSJ
13th President of the Parliament of Catalonia
In office
16 December 2010 – 26 October 2015
PresidentArtur Mas
Preceded byErnest Benach
Succeeded byCarme Forcadell
Minister of Justice of Catalonia
In office
1 February 1995 – 5 February 2001
PresidentJordi Pujol
Preceded byAntoni Isac i Aguilar
Succeeded byJosep Delfí Guàrdia i Canela
Minister of Governance and Public Administration of Catalonia
In office
5 February 2001 – 4 November 2002
PresidentJordi Pujol
Preceded byJosep Antoni Duran i Lleida
Succeeded byJosep Maria Pelegrí
Minister of Justice and Interior of Catalonia
In office
4 November 2002 – 17 December 2003
PresidentJordi Pujol
Preceded byJosep Delfí Guàrdia i Canela (Justice)
Xavier Pomés (Interior)
Succeeded byJosep Maria Vallès (Justice)
Montserrat Tura (Interior)
Member of the Parliament of Catalonia
In office
16 December 2003 – 26 October 2015
ConstituencyBarcelona
Personal details
Born
Núria de Gispert i Català

(1949-04-06) 6 April 1949 (age 75)
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Political partyDemòcrates de Catalunya (2015–present)
Other political
affiliations		UDC (1986–2015)
Alma materUniversity of Barcelona
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionLawyer
Websitenuriadegispert.wordpress.com

Núria de Gispert i Català (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈnuɾiə ðə ʒisˈpɛɾt]; born 6 April 1949) is a Spanish politician and lawyer. Between 2010 and 2015 she served as speaker of Parliament of Catalonia.[1][2]

Biography

Núria de Gispert is married and has four children. She is also the daughter of politician and lawyer Ignasi de Gispert i Jordà, and great-granddaughter of Dorotea de Chopitea, protector and benefactor of several Catholic orders.[3] De Gispert graduated in law at the University of Barcelona and she has also the title of legal translator from Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Spain. She worked as lawyer from 1971 to 1973. She started to work as civil servant at the Diputació de Barcelona in 1974; later, in 1980, she was moved to the Generalitat.

In recognition of her task as lawyer, he was awarded the Cross of St. Raymond of Peñafort (1998), the Cross of Merit to the Service of the Spanish Advocacy (2002) and the Medal of the Bar Association of Barcelona (2004). She is also a member of the Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation of Catalonia since 2006.[1]

Speaker of the Parliament

On 16 December 2010, she was elected President of the Parliament of Catalonia in the constitutive session of the Parliament for the ninth legislature, being the first woman to hold this position in Catalonia. At the beginning of the 10th legislature, on 17 December 2012, she was re-elected for this position. Since she didn't run on the 2015 Catalan parliamentary election, she couldn't be re-elected. At the beginning of the 11th legislature, in October 2015, Carme Forcadell, part of the Together for Yes coalition, was elected new President of the Parliament of Catalonia.[2]

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b Profile at the website of Parliament of Catalonia: "H. Sra. Núria de Gispert i Català". www.parlament.cat. Parliament of Catalonia. 17 December 2010. Archived from the original on 14 June 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
  2. ^ a b "Carme Forcadell ja és presidenta del Parlament gràcies als vots de JxSí i la CUP" (in Catalan). El Periódico. 26 October 2015.
  3. ^ La Vanguardia, 4 April 1984 Homenaje a Dorotea de Chopitea, fundadora de treinta obras sociales (in Spanish)
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