Virginia González Bernal
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virginia.gonzalez@gritwood.mx
Virginia holds a Law degree from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), where she also completed graduate-level coursework through the Specialization Program in Constitutional Law and Amparo Proceedings, as well as advanced courses in litigation. With a distinguished three-decade career in the Mexican public sector, she has built a robust track record in contentious matters, earning particular recognition for her expertise in state legal defense and the management of complex proceedings in civil, commercial, agrarian, and administrative law, as well as in the strategic direction of amparo and annulment proceedings.
Her professional career is intrinsically linked to the Secretaría de Infraestructura, Comunicaciones y Transportes (SICT – Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport), where since 1995 she has held senior leadership positions. Within this agency, she has headed the units responsible for legal representation before tribunals, coordinating the defense in large-scale litigation and overseeing the legality of institutional acts. From January 2023 to October 2025, she served as Executive Director of Contentious Proceedings within the SICT’s Legal Affairs Unit, where she held full legal representation of the Ministry across all jurisdictional proceedings, cementing her reputation as an expert in the protection of governmental interests.
She also has extensive experience in decentralized agencies and strategic sectors. She served as Corporate Director of Legal Affairs and Postal Security at the Servicio Postal Mexicano (Mexican Postal Service) from 2019 to 2021, and previously, from 2004 to 2008, headed the Administrative Litigation Division at Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México (National Railways of Mexico). Her broad legal versatility also led her to serve as Legal Director of the Fondo de Capitalización e Inversión del Sector Rural (FOCIR – Rural Sector Capitalization and Investment Fund), a public trust of the Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público (Ministry of Finance and Public Credit), where she oversaw the legal structures governing agricultural investment and the administration of high-impact social programs.
In addition to her litigation specialization, she possesses strong competencies in the advisory and regulatory dimensions of law. As Division Director within the SICT’s Executive Regulatory Directorate, she was responsible for issuing specialized legal opinions and advisory rulings in the transport and telecommunications sectors, ensuring the legal viability of regulatory projects of national scope. Her profile combines deep technical expertise with proven capacity for strategic decision-making in high-demand regulatory and administrative environments.