Dagoberto Lagos

Dagoberto José Lagos Pantoja (24 September 1861 – 3 March 1949) was a Chilean lawyer and judge who served as president of the Supreme Court from 1929 to 1931.

Early life and education

Lagos was born in Chillán on 24 September 1861, the son of José María Lagos Marchant and Magdalena Pantoja del Río.

He studied law and qualified as a lawyer in 1885.

Lagos married Isabel Lagos, with whom he had seven children.

Judicial career

Lagos pursued a career in the Chilean judiciary. He served as a judge and subsequently as a justice of the Court of Appeals before reaching the country's highest court.

In 1925, he was appointed a justice of the Supreme Court of Chile.

Lagos became president of the Supreme Court in 1929, succeeding Gustavo Sepúlveda Lagos. He held the presidency during the government of Carlos Ibáñez del Campo and remained in office until 1931.

He left the Supreme Court in 1931. Lagos died in Viña del Mar on 3 March 1949.