Judge Francisco Eduardo Loureiro court responsible for 25% of new cases entering Brazilian justice
Francisco Eduardo Loureiro was elected president of the (Court of Justice of São Paulo) on Wednesday (November 12, 2025). The judge received 261 votes, obtaining an absolute majority in the Full Court (made up of 356 judges). He surpassed Artur Cesar Beretta da Silveira, who received 91 votes.
Judge since 2011, Loureiro, 66 years old, takes office in January 2026, with a 2-year term. He will succeed Fernando Antonio Torres Garcia, current president. The future vice-president, Luís Francisco Aguilar Cortez, and the general inspector of justice, Silvia Rocha, were also elected.
Born in the capital of São Paulo, Francisco Eduardo Loureiro was born in 1959 and graduated from the Faculty of Law at USP (University of São Paulo) in 1982. In 1985, he took up a position as a substitute judge in the 3rd Judicial Circuit, based in Santo André.
The magistrate worked in the districts of Cândido Mota, Franco da Rocha and in the capital of São Paulo. In 2005, he became a substitute judge in the 2nd degree and, in 2011, he was promoted to judge at the TJSP. His administrative experience includes time at Escola Paulista da Magistratura, where he was deputy director in the 2016/2017 biennium and director in 2018/2019.
Largest court in the world
Loureiro will be in charge of the largest court in Brazil and also in the world, with 58,583 active servers. According to the Justice in Numbers report from the CNJ (National Council of Justice), the TJSP concentrated in 2024 approximately 24.5% of all new cases in the Brazilian State Court, that is, almost 1 in every 4 cases that enter the State Court in the country were in São Paulo. Here is it (PDF – 26 MB).
At the same time, the São Paulo court is the 2nd most demanded in Brazil proportionally, with 144.5 new cases per 1,000 inhabitants, behind only the TJRS (Court of Justice of Rio Grande do Sul), which has 178 new cases per 1,000 inhabitants. It is also the 2nd Court of Justice with the longest Collection Turnover Time.
The Collection Turnover Time shows how long the court would take to judge all pending cases, if it stopped receiving new cases and maintained the current rate of productivity. In other words, it measures how many years of work would be needed to clear the stock of processes that are already in progress. In São Paulo, this time is 2 years and 7 months.
Despite being the largest court in the country, the TJSP is also among the most racially unequal. In 2024, the percentage of black magistrates (first instance judges and judges) was just 3.9%, which places the São Paulo court as the 2nd most racially unequal in Brazil, behind only the TJSC (Santa Catarina Court of Justice), where the rate is 3.4%. Among judges, the proportion of black people was just 1.5%, while among judges it reached 4.5%. Among civil servants, the percentage of black people is higher, at 24.8%.
