Lorenzo Jesús del Río Fernández, born in 1956 in Jódar, Jaén, has been apponted as the new president of the TSJA, the Supreme Court of Justice for Andalucia, beating off competition from Francisco Javier Arroyo, president of the Málaga Court and Joaquín García and Bernardo de Quirós from the Litigation Division of the Supreme Court in Málaga.