{{Short description|Spanish judge and politician}} {{family name hatnote|Llop|Cuenca|lang=Spanish}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Pilar Llop | honorific_prefix = [[The Most Excellent]] | image = Pilar Llop 2021 (cropped).jpg | office = [[Ministry of Justice (Spain)|Minister of Justice]]<br/><small>[[First Notary of the Kingdom]]</small> | prime_minister = [[Pedro Sánchez]] | term_start = 12 July 2021 | term_end = 21 November 2023 | predecessor = [[Juan Carlos Campo]] | successor = [[Félix Bolaños]] | office1 = 61st [[President of the Senate of Spain|President of the Senate]] | monarch1 = [[Felipe VI]] | predecessor1 = [[Manuel Cruz Rodríguez]] | vice_president1 = [[Cristina Narbona]]<br>[[Pío García-Escudero]] | successor1 = [[Ander Gil]] | term_start1 = 3 December 2019 | term_end1 = 8 July 2021 | office2 = [[Member of the Senate (Spain)|Member of the Senate]] | constituency2 = [[Assembly of Madrid]] | term_start2 = 11 July 2019 | term_end2 = 8 July 2021 | office3 = [[Government Delegation for Gender Violence|Government Delegate for Gender Violence]] | term_start3 = 24 July 2018 | term_end3 = 13 April 2019 | predecessor3 = María José Ordóñez | successor3 = Rebeca Palomo | office4 = [[Member of the Assembly of Madrid]] | term_start4 = 11 June 2019 | term_end4 = 12 July 2021 | term_start5 = 9 June 2015 | term_end5 = 13 July 2018 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1973|08|03|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Madrid]], [[Spanish State|Spain]] | occupation = Judge, politician, consultant | citizenship = Spanish }} '''María Pilar Llop Cuenca''' (born 3 August 1973) is a Spanish judge and politician who served as the [[Ministry of Justice of Spain|minister of Justice of Spain]] and ''ex officio'' [[First Notary of the Kingdom]] from 2021 to 2023. Previously, she served as the 61st [[president of the Senate of Spain]]. She has been [[Spanish Senate|Spanish Senator]] designated by the [[Assembly of Madrid]], an assembly of which she has been part since June 2019. Previously, she was member of the [[Assembly of Madrid]] from 2015 to 2018 and [[Government Delegation for Gender Violence|Government Delegate for Gender Violence]] of the Government of Spain from 2018 to 2019.
== Early life and education == Born on 3 August 1973 in Madrid to a humble family; her father was a taxi-driver and her mother a hairdresser.<ref>{{Cite web|website=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|url=https://www.revistavanityfair.es/poder/articulos/pilar-llop-presidenta-del-senado-familia-marido-hija/42072|title=Así es Pilar Llop, la próxima presidenta del Senado: jueza políglota, feminista y madre de una hija|first=Nuria|last=Hernández|date=2 December 2019}}</ref><ref name=alvarez20181227>{{Cite journal|journal=[[El País]]|url=https://elpais.com/sociedad/2018/12/21/actualidad/1545391764_695277.html|title=En una sociedad democrática no cabe la prostitución|date=27 December 2018|first=Pilar|last=Álvarez}}</ref><ref name=confilegal>{{Cite journal|url=https://confilegal.com/20150706-pilar-llop-compromiso-politica-luchar-igualdad-hombres-mujeres-sea-realidad-05072015-2205/|title=Pilar Llop: "Estoy en política para que la igualdad entre hombres y mujeres sea una realidad"|date=6 July 2015|journal=Confilegal}}</ref> She graduated with a degree in law at the [[Complutense University of Madrid]].<ref>{{Cite journal|journal=[[El País]]|first=Pilar|last=Álvarez|url=https://elpais.com/politica/2018/07/13/actualidad/1531466818_064358.html|date=13 July 2018|title=Pilar Llop, nueva delegada del Gobierno para la Violencia de Género}}</ref> She also obtained a master's degree in judicial translation in the [[University of Alicante]].<ref name=alvarez20181227 />
== Career == Llop entered the judiciary in 1999 and became a magistrate in 2004.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.europapress.es/epsocial/igualdad/noticia-delegada-gobierno-violencia-machista-explicara-congreso-identificar-conductas-acoso-20181112125847.html|publisher=[[Europa Press (news agency)|Europa Press]]|date=12 November 2018|title=La delegada del Gobierno en violencia machista explicará en el Congreso cómo identificar las conductas de acoso}}</ref>
Llop ran in the [[Spanish Socialist Worker's Party]] (PSOE) list for the [[2015 Madrilenian regional election]] led by [[Ángel Gabilondo]] and became a member of the 10th term of the regional legislature. She formalised the renouncement of her seat in the [[Assembly of Madrid]] on 13 July 2018,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.asambleamadrid.es/Documents/Transparencia/XLEGISLATURAdiputadosaltasbajas.pdf|access-date=4 February 2019|title=Altas y bajas de diputados en la X legislatura|publisher=[[Assembly of Madrid]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190204174450/https://www.asambleamadrid.es/Documents/Transparencia/XLEGISLATURAdiputadosaltasbajas.pdf|archive-date=4 February 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> as she had been appointed by the [[Council of Ministers (Spain)|Council of Ministers]] presided over by [[Pedro Sánchez (politician)|Pedro Sánchez]] as the new [[Government Delegation for Gender Violence|Government Delegate for Gender Violence]]. She was sworn into office on 24 July 2018.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.elconfidencial.com/ultima-hora-en-vivo/2018-07-24/martes-24-de-julio-de-2018-7-00-gmt_1580519/|journal=[[El Confidencial]]|title=Martes, 24 de julio de 2018 (7.00 GMT)|date=24 July 2018}}</ref>
During her time in office, Llop led efforts on reforming Spain’s [[insolvency]] law to simplify bankruptcy proceedings and meet a major condition agreed with the [[European Commission]] to obtain [[Next Generation EU|European Union recovery funds]].<ref>Belén Carreño (21 December 2021), [https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/spain-streamlines-bankruptcy-process-get-eu-recovery-funds-2021-12-21/ Spain streamlines bankruptcy process to get EU recovery funds] ''[[Reuters]]''.</ref>
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