Aníbal Fernández

**Aníbal Domingo Fernández** (born January 9, 1957) is an Argentine politician, public accountant and lawyer affiliated and militant of the Justicialist Party, Since 2021 to 2023, he has served as Argentina's Minister of Security, in the cabinet of Alberto Fernández.

He also held the positions of Secretary General of the Presidency, National Senator for the province of Buenos Aires during the period 2013-2015, Minister of the Interior and Minister of Justice, Security and Human Rights between 2002 and 2011, under the orders of three different presidents: Eduardo Duhalde, Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

On November 6, 2011, he became the person who remained in high-ranking public office the longest in Argentine history.

## Early life and education

Born in Quilmes, Buenos Aires Province, Fernández received his CPA on 6 March 1982 from the Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora and his law degree on 19 December 2001 from the same institution.

## Other websites

- Newspaper of the Ministry of Interior
- Site of the Jauretche Institute

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Aníbal Fernández
- **image**: Aníbal_Fernández,_Security_Minister.jpg
- **office**: Ministry of Security (Argentina), Minister of Security
- **term start**: 20 September 2021
- **term end**: 10 December 2023
- **successor**: Patricia Bullrich
- **president**: Alberto Fernández
- **predecessor**: Sabina Frederic
- **office1**: Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers
- **term start1**: 26 February 2015
- **term end1**: 10 December 2015
- **president1**: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
- **predecessor1**: Jorge Capitanich
- **successor1**: Marcos Peña
- **term start2**: 8 July 2009
- **term end2**: 10 December 2011
- **president2**: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
- **predecessor2**: Sergio Massa
- **successor2**: Juan Manuel Abal Medina Jr., Juan Manuel Abal Medina
- **office3**: General Secretariat of the Presidency (Argentina), General Secretary of the Presidency
- **term start3**: 16 December 2014
- **term end3**: 26 February 2015
- **president3**: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
- **predecessor3**: Oscar Parrilli
- **successor3**: Eduardo de Pedro
- **term start4**: 2 January 2002
- **term end4**: 3 October 2002
- **president4**: Eduardo Duhalde
- **predecessor4**: Luis Lusquiños
- **successor4**: José Pampuro
- **office5**: Argentine Senate, National Senator
- **term start5**: 10 December 2011
- **term end5**: 16 December 2014
- **predecessor5**: Eric Calcagno
- **successor5**: Juan Manuel Abal Medina Jr.
- **constituency5**: Buenos Aires Province, Buenos Aires
- **office6**: Ministry of Justice and Human Rights (Argentina), Minister of Justice, Security and Human Rights
- **president6**: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
- **term start6**: 10 December 2007
- **term end6**: 8 July 2009
- **predecessor6**: Alberto Iribarne
- **successor6**: Julio Alak
- **office7**: Ministry of the Interior (Argentina), Minister of the Interior
- **president7**: Néstor Kirchner
- **term start7**: 25 May 2003
- **term end7**: 10 December 2007
- **predecessor7**: :es:Jorge Matzkin, Jorge Matzkin
- **successor7**: Florencio Randazzo
- **office8**: Ministry of Productive Development, Minister of Production
- **president8**: Eduardo Duhalde
- **term start8**: 3 October 2002
- **term end8**: 25 May 2003
- **predecessor8**: José Ignacio de Mendiguren
- **successor8**: Débora Giorgi
- **office9**: Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Mayor of Quilmes
- **term start9**: 1991
- **term end9**: 1995
- **predecessor9**: Eduardo Camaño
- **successor9**: Federico Scabarino
- **birth place**: Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Quilmes, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
- **party**: Justicialist Party
- **otherparty**: Front for Victory
- **alma mater**: National University of Lomas de Zamora
- **profession**: Lawyer