Now, the 52-year-old Aguilar, a lawyer from the Mixtec people in Mexico’s southern Oaxaca state, will be the first Indigenous Supreme Court justice in nearly 170 years in the Latin American nation, according to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. He could lead the high court., Hugo Aguilar Ortíz, an indigenous lawyer from Oaxaca, has become the first directly elected Indigenous president of Mexico’s Supreme Court, a historic milestone that is stirring controversy, The incoming head of the Supreme Court is Hugo Aguilar Ortiz, a Mixtec Indigenous lawyer from Oaxaca, who becomes the first Indigenous person to hold Mexico’s highest judicial office., Hugo Aguilar Ortiz, an indigenous Mixtec lawyer and coordinator of Indigenous Rights at Mexico's National Institute of Indigenous Peoples (INPI), is leading the vote count to become the president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) following the 2025 Judicial Election., Now, the 52-year-old Aguilar, a lawyer from the Mixtec people in Mexico’s southern Oaxaca state, will be the first Indigenous Supreme Court justice in nearly 170 years in the Latin American nation, according to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. He could lead the high court., .