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Fanny González Franco (1934 in Pensilvania, Caldas – November 7, 1985 in Bogotá) was a Colombian lawyer. She graduated from the Pontifical Bolivarian University (university of which she was the first woman graduated as a lawyer, in 1958), she was also the first woman to be a magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia. She died in the Palace of Justice siege when the building was attacked and occupied by the M-19 guerrillas in November 1985.

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1. Augusto Trujillo Muñoz (2015). "There were also heroes".
2. Jaime Castro. Palace of Justice: neither coup d'etat, nor power vacuum. Norma Publishing Group, 2009.
3. ""I die defending justice": Fanny González". 2013.
4. González Franco, Augusto (July 13, 2018). "No nos revictimicen: hermano de la magistrada que murió en la toma del Palacio de Justicia". El Espectador (in Spanish). Retrieved November 12, 2019.

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