Julio Márquez de Prado Pérez (25 June 1948 – 23 February 2021), was a Spanish magistrate, president of the Extremaduran Hight Court of Justice between 2004 and 2020. Márquez de Prado was born in Badajoz on 25 June 1948 and graduated in Law from the Autonomous University of Madrid. At the age of 25 years approved the examination for judge, being his first assignment in Pozoblanco in 1974. He was assigned as a judge to Zafra and Bilbao, becoming a magistrate in the Audience of Córdoba and later the Provincial Audience of de Sevilla.