Horacio Rosatti | |
Office1: | President of the Supreme Court |
Term Start1: | 1 October 2021 |
Predecessor1: | Carlos Rosenkrantz |
Office2: | Minister of the Supreme Court |
Term Start2: | 29 June 2016 |
Nominator2: | Mauricio Macri |
Predecessor2: | Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni |
Office3: | Minister of Justice and Human Rights |
President3: | Néstor Kirchner |
Term Start3: | 24 July 2004 |
Term End3: | 25 July 2005 |
Predecessor3: | Gustavo Béliz |
Successor3: | Alberto Iribarne |
Office4: | Procurator of the Treasury |
President4: | Néstor Kirchner |
Term Start4: | 25 May 2003 |
Term End4: | 24 July 2004 |
Predecessor4: | Carlos Sánchez Herrera |
Successor4: | Osvaldo Guglielmino |
Office5: | Mayor of Santa Fe |
Term Start5: | 10 December 1995 |
Term End5: | 10 December 1999 |
Predecessor5: | Jorge Obeid |
Successor5: | Marcelo Ignacio Alvarez |
Birth Date: | 11 August 1956 |
Birth Place: | Santa Fe, Argentina |
Birth Name: | Horacio Daniel Rosatti |
Party: | Justicialist Party |
Alma Mater: | National University of the Littoral (LLB) |
Horacio Daniel Rosatti (born 11 August 1956) is an Argentine lawyer, politician and a member of the Supreme Court of Argentina since 2016, designated by president Mauricio Macri's and the Senate's approval.[1] In September 2021 he was elected President of the court by his peers, and took office on 1 October.[2]
As a politician, for the Justicialist Party, he served as Mayor of Santa Fe from 1995 to 1999, as Procurator of the Treasury of the Nation from 2003 to 2004, and then as Minister of Justice when the president Néstor Kirchner appointed him to the position between 2004 and 2005.[3] [4]
Rosatti was born on 11 August 1956 in Santa Fe. He graduated in law from the National University of the Littoral (UNL). He is also a Doctor in History by the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina.[5]
From 1999 to 2002, he was dean of the Universidad Católica de Santa Fe (UCSF) Faculty of Law.[6] He has also taught courses at the graduate level on constitutional law and provincial and municipal public law at the UNL Faculty of Judicial and Social Sciences. At the post-graduate level, he has taught courses on constitutional and public law at the Universidad Austral and the National University of Rosario.[7]