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Luis Henry Molina Peña (1967)
President of the Supreme Court of Justice and of the Council of the Judicial Branch
He began his involvement in the Dominican Judicial Branch at the age of 18. He was a clerk at the Superior Court of Lands. He later worked at the Dominican Center for Legal Advice and Research (CEDAIL), an institution of the Dominican Episcopal Conference. He holds a law degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD).
He worked as an associate attorney of the firm Pellerano & Herrera, where he worked as a litigator and later managing the Collection Services division of the firm. He worked with Juan Manuel Pellerano in the organization of the office's library, as well as in activities of the Asociación Hipólito Herrera Billini and was a member of the Editorial Committee of the Revista Estudios Jurídicos.
After six years of work, he won a scholarship from the Chilean government to study a postgraduate degree in Constitutional Law at the Catholic University of Chile.
Upon his return, he worked as a consultant for the World Bank for the Commissioner of Support to the Reform and Modernization of Justice, of which he later became executive director. After that experience he was deputy director, together with Juan Manuel Pellerano (director) of the Escuela de la Magistratura. The Judicial Career Law prohibited that such position be occupied by a practicing lawyer, so with the departure of Pellerano, Molina became interim director. When the new law that created the National School of the Judiciary was approved, a public competition was held and Molina was elected director of this institution. He also served as executive director of the Implementation of Criminal Procedure Reform (CONAEJ), first secretary general of the Ibero-American Network of Judicial Schools (RIAEJ), created by the Summit of Presidents of Supreme Courts and Tribunals of Ibero-America. He contributed to the creation of the networks of judicial schools of the Mexican states (REJEM) and the Argentine provinces (REFELJAR), within the framework of the Euro Social project of the European Union. He also served as coordinator of the E-Justice Project: justice in the knowledge society of the Ibero-American Judicial Summit. After 12 consecutive years as director of the National School of the Judiciary in December 2010, Luis Henry Molina Peña decided to end his functions, being replaced by Gervasia Valenzuela Sosa.
From 2012 to 2016, he was vice minister of the Presidency of the Republic. Then, executive director of the Center for Export and Investment of the Dominican Republic (CEI-RD). In 2018, he was appointed president of the Board of the Dominican Telecommunications Institute (INDOTEL).
He has been a university professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM), teaching History of Law, Introduction to Law, Comparative Law at the undergraduate level. Also, Constitutional Law in master's degree at the Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE).
In 2019, he was elected by the National Council of the Judiciary to integrate, as presiding judge, the Supreme Court of Justice and the Council of the Judiciary.
