The Guanent Judicial District was created by the New Granada Congress at the beginning of last century. One of the most famous jurists attended the courtroom with espadrilles. The list of Tribunal Magistrates. He gures as one of the most respectable in the Colombian Forum. Hermeneutic magazines.
The Congress of New Granada dispatched a decree by which the Santandereanas Provinces were segregated from the Tunja Jurisdiction, and created at the same time, the Judicial District of Guanent with headquarters in the City of San Gil. The Superior Tribunal functioned in this city until 1857. In this year, the Sovereign State of Santander was created with the capital in the City of Socorro, where the Seat of the Santander Supreme Tribunal was transferred. It had a very extensive jurisdiction. Law 25 of February 28, 1888 divided the Jurisdiction of this Tribunal into two districts, the Tribunal District of the North and the Tribunal District of the South., the latter one with headquarters in Socorro.

Later, another law created the Galn Department, and assigned San Gil as its capital. General Reyes wanted it to be the Tribunal capital. Law 63 of April, 1888 which divided the country judicially, created the Galn Judicial District, with headquarters in San Gil, where it has stayed ever since despite the mean spirited ones trying to fuse the Tribunal with the one in Bucaramanga. When the Galn Department was extinguished in 1910, the Tribunal changed its denomination from Supreme of Santander to Superior Judicial District of San Gil which encompasses forty-six municipalities and half a million inhabitants.
The most substantive gures of the intelligence of Santander and the National Forum have served in the District Superior Tribunal with the investiture of Magistrate. The following are the jurists of San Gil from its establishment to the present: Juan de la Cruz Duarte, former General Prosecutor of the nation Marco Antonio Melendez, former Senator of the Republic Marco Cadena, Pedro Agustin Melendez, Francisco Rueda Gomez, Juan de Dios Galvis, Pedro Silva, Jose Alcibiades Arguello Rafael Neira, former Senator of the Republic Elias Jaimes, former Mayor of Bogot Teolo Noriega, Pedro Leon Amaya, Agustin Moreno Narciso Torres Melendez, former Governor of Santander Alfredo Garcia Rueda, former Senator of the Republic Luis A. Mejia, former Governor of Santander Luis Alejandro Tapias Pironieta, Julio Cancino, former Senator of the Republic Ezequiel de Segura, Luis Navas, Esteban Atuesta, Jorge Gomez Silva, former Senator of the Republic and Governor of the Department Francisco Antonio Muntildez, Ciro Rueda, Luis Becerra Lopez, Roberto Rueda Galvis, Agustin Espinel, Rogelio Russi, Rafael Maria Amezquita, Manuel Jose Ortiz, Francisco Bruno, former Magistrate of the Justice Supreme Court Roberto Linares, Guillermo Galvis Galvis, Ciro Goyeneche, Daniel Villarreal, Ramiro Gomez, Guillermo Hanssem, Jorge Ortiz Agudelo Pedro Manuel Arenas, former Minister of Justice, Mines and Foreign Relations, and former Chairman of the Central Hipotecario Bank Alberto Tellez Camacho, former Magistrate of the Justice Supreme Court and former Governor of Santander Hector Santander Galvis, Jaime Rueda, Luis Alfonso Perez, Arturo Rios Garcia, Alberto Rueda Amorocho, Alfonso Garcia Rangel, Euclides Gomez Plata and Lelio Rodriguez. Most of the jurists have died, but the people esteemed them and received the influence of their immaculate conscience and right knowledge. In 1888 the Tribunal had its publication Revista Judicial del Sur (Southern Judicial Magazine), changed by Francisco Bruno to Justicia and Reforma (Justice and Reform). It had a legal, doctrinal and scientic orientation in the eld of private law with relevance to the country today. In 1940, the Tribunal functioned in the modern Palace of Justice built by the National Government. The building has a Superior Court, three Circuit Courts, two Public Notaries, radio, telegraph and post ofces, Internal Revenue, Inspection of Health and Labor. The building was started in 1938 and inaugurated by President Eduardo Santos on April 9, 1940. The Tribunal Jurisdictional Division is integrated by three Superior Courts. It has Circuit Courts in San Gil which involves the Municipalities of San Gil, Curiti, Jordn, Mogotes, Onzaga, Pramo, Valle, Pinchote and San Joaquin. In Socorro the Circuit court involves Connes, Chima, Gmbita, Guadalupe, Guapot, Hato, Oiba, Palmar, Palmas, Simacota and Suaita. In Velez, it is integrated by the Courts of Aguada, Bolivar, Barbosa, Chipat, Guavat, La Paz, San Benito and Sucre. The Circuit of Zapatoca involves Betulia, San Vicente de Chucuri, Barichara, Charal, Puente Nacional and Contratacion. During more than seventy years, The Superior Tribunal of the Judicial District of San Gil has been a moral fortress and a just and incorruptible legal body of which the city is proud. For the registry of public and private instruments, San Gil has two Public Notaries.
There is a chronicle in the Superior Tribunal half a century ago, a magistrate attended court wearing espadrilles. There was a special agreement prohibiting such footwear. This disappeared from the archives. He was a famous magistrate who quoted with frequency Planiol, Ripert, Josserand, Colin, Capitant, Bonecasse, Somarriva and Alessandri. His home was frequented by judges, and District colleagues to whom he advised the most scientic way, substantive and procedural. One gentleman famous for his hermeneutic knowledge visited the home of the magistrate to consult two sentences about an intricate matter, to see which one was the best. After listening to the pertinent considerations the magistrate said: “ Don’t read to me, my dear judge, the second project, that the last one is the best”. He was a good disciple of Stendhal.