Juan Gómez Duarte

He began working as a civil servant in the Attorney General's Office in 1975 while studying at the university.^[6] In 1997 he became a prosecutor and was assigned as a prosecutor in the city of Rivera until 2000.^[7] Then he was assigned until 2009 as a Departmental Prosecutor of Maldonado. In office he prosecuted Guillermo Coppola for obstruction of justice.^[8]

From 2009 to 2012 he served as National Prosecutor of the Criminal Prosecutor's Office of Montevideo. In 2012 he was appointed head of the Special Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime, a position in which he prosecuted well-known personalities such as the football executive Eugenio Figueredo, and the Minister of Economy of José Mujica's administration, Fernando Lorenzo.^[9][10] In 2016 he was promoted as head of the Montevideo Criminal Prosecutor's Office and a year later of the Criminal Homicide Prosecutor's Office.^[11]

In April 2021 he was appointed Deputy Attorney General to then-incumbent Jorge Díaz Almeida, who resigned from the position in October.^[12] Due to this, Gómez took over as interim, pending the nomination of a new one, which corresponds to the Executive with the approval of the Senate.^[13] However, since then no consensus has been achieved between all parliamentary groups.^[14]

Gómez is married to lawyer Laura Bentos, and they have two daughters, Daniela and Josefina.^[15] On December 27, 2023, he was hospitalized due to a health condition and it was announced that he would require "prolonged treatment."^[16]