Núria de Gispert

Núria de Gispert i Català is a Spanish politician and lawyer. Between 2010 and 2015 she served as speaker of Parliament of Catalonia.

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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. 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, the Cross of Merit to the Service of the Spanish Advocacy and the Medal of the Bar Association of Barcelona. She is also a member of the Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation of Catalonia since 2006.

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 Junts pel Sí coalition, was elected new President of the Parliament of Catalonia.