Retired minister of the (Superior Court of Justice) Assusete Magalhães died, this Monday (1st), at the age of 76, due to complications resulting from a pancreas. She was in for health treatment.
The wake will take place this Tuesday morning (2) in the STJ Reception Hall. At 2:30 pm, a funeral mass will also be celebrated at the court. The burial is scheduled for 5pm, at the Campo da Esperança cemetery (Pioneiros wing), in .
Born in Serro, in the interior of Minas Gerais, Assusete Magalhães served on the higher court from 2012 to 2024, the year in which he reached compulsory retirement age. She was the first woman to head the court’s Ombudsman’s Office.
In a note, the court highlighted the minister’s trajectory, which included her family’s resistance to the study of law, her gaining space in the Minas Gerais judiciary and her family’s separation after her transfer to the .
Assusete Magalhães joined the Federal Court of the 1st Region in 1984, in the Minas Gerais Section, and later worked in the Rio de Janeiro Section. She was a judge at the Regional Electoral Court of Minas Gerais and the Regional Electoral Court of .
In 1993, she took office as federal judge of the TRF-1 (Federal Regional Court of the 1st Region), where she served as director of the magistracy school and inspector of the 1st degree Federal Court.
In 2006, she became the first woman president of the TRF-1 and the first to preside over a federal court in Brazil.
The national president of the (Brazilian Bar Association), Beto Simonetti, stated that the minister “has built a trajectory of integrity, dedication and commitment to democratic values” and that “the legal profession says goodbye today to an admirable jurist, who honored the judiciary, the law and the cause of justice”.
Assusete Magalhães is survived by her husband, Júlio Cézar de Magalhães, three children and four grandchildren.
