Fanny González Franco (1934 in Pensilvania, Caldas – November 7, 1985 in Bogotá) was a Colombian lawyer.[1] She graduated from the Pontifical Bolivarian University (university of which she was the first woman graduated as a lawyer, in 1958), she was also the first woman to be a magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia.[2][3] She died in the Palace of Justice siege when the building was attacked and occupied by the M-19 guerrillas in November 1985.[4]
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- ^ Augusto Trujillo Muñoz (2015). "There were also heroes".
- ^ Jaime Castro. Palace of Justice: neither coup d'etat, nor power vacuum. Norma Publishing Group, 2009.
- ^ ""I die defending justice": Fanny González". 2013.
- ^ González Franco, Augusto (July 13, 2018). "No nos revictimicen: hermano de la magistrada que murió en la toma del Palacio de Justicia". El Espectador (in Spanish). Retrieved November 12, 2019.
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