Olga Feliú
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Olga Feliú | |
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| Member of the Senate | |
| In office 11 March 1990 – 11 March 1998 | |
| Preceded by | Office re-established |
| Succeeded by | Enrique Silva Cimma |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 May 1932 |
| Died | 27 June 2017 (aged 85) |
| Spouse | Waldo Ortúzar |
| Children | 4 |
| Parent(s) | Miguel Ángel Feliú Olga Segovia |
| Alma mater | University of Chile (LL.B) |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Olga Feliú Segovia (20 August 1932 – 25 June 2017) was a Chilean politician and lawyer. She was appointed to the Senate in 1990 by the Supreme Court and served until 1998, when she was succeeded by Enrique Silva Cimma.[1]
Family and youth
She was born in Santiago on 20 August 1932. She was the daughter of Miguel Ángel Feliú and María Segovia. She married Waldo Ortúzar Latapiat and had four children. She died in Santiago on 25 June 2017.[2]
Professional career
She completed her primary and secondary education at Colegio Santa Elena in Santiago. She later entered the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile, qualifying as a lawyer on 14 January 1963. Her graduation thesis for the degree in Legal and Social Sciences was entitled “The Effects of Marriage and Its Annulment in Administrative Law”.[2]
In 1954, while still a law student, she joined the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic as an administrative officer. In 1963, she was appointed as a lawyer within the same institution, and in 1967 she became deputy head of the Subdepartment of Coordination and Legal Information. She worked for 26 years at the Comptroller's Office, retiring in 1980.[2]
In parallel, in 1968 she served as a teaching assistant in Criminal Law at the University of Chile. That same year, she attended the Chilean–Uruguayan meeting on “Legal Information” held in Montevideo. In 1971, representing the Comptroller's Office, she participated in the Eighth Franco–Latin American Conferences on Comparative Law in Argentina. She was also invited by the United Nations to become familiar with legal and administrative activities in Puerto Rico, Brazil, and Spain. In 1974, she assumed as Head of the Department of Prior Review and Registry ―Toma de Razón y Registro― of the Comptroller's Office, a position she held for six years.[2]
Between 1980 and 1990, she practiced law independently. She was a founding partner of the law firm Ortúzar, Feliú & Sagües and handled, among other cases, the Colonia Dignidad case.[2]