Fernando Grande-Marlaska

Fernando Grande-Marlaska
Official portrait, 2023
Minister of the Interior
Assumed office
7 June 2018
MonarchFelipe VI
Prime MinisterPedro Sánchez
Preceded byJuan Ignacio Zoido
Member of the General Council of the Judiciary
In office
4 December 2013 – 7 June 2018
PresidentCarlos Lesmes Serrano
Chair of the Criminal Chamber of the Audiencia Nacional
In office
16 April 2013 – 6 June 2018
Preceded byJavier Gómez Bermúdez
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office
17 August 2023 – 1 December 2023
ConstituencyCádiz
In office
21 May 2019 – 21 February 2020
ConstituencyCádiz
Personal details
Born
Fernando Grande-Marlaska Gómez

(1962-07-26) 26 July 1962 (age 62)
Bilbao, Spain
Spouse
Gorka Gómez
(m. 2005)
Alma materUniversity of Deusto

Fernando Grande-Marlaska Gómez (Spanish pronunciation: [feɾˈnando ˈɣɾande maɾˈlaska]; born 26 July 1962) is a Spanish judge and politician who has served as minister of the Interior since June 2018. An independent politician close to the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, he has been Member of the Congress of Deputies from 2019 to 2020, and briefly from August to December 2023, representing Cádiz.

Grande-Marlaska is a well-known judge since the early 2000s for his time at the Audiencia Nacional, where he tried several members of the Basque terrorist group ETA and he led the trial that followed the Yak-42 accident, among other relevant cases. He also served as Member of the General Council of the Judiciary —the governing body of the Spanish judiciary— from 2013 to 2018.