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Portuguese jurist and politician (born 1970)
Catarina Sarmento e Castro
Sarmento e Castro in 2023
Minister of Justice
In office
30 March 2022 – 2 April 2024
Prime MinisterAntónio Costa
Preceded byFrancisca Van Dunem
Succeeded byRita Júdice
Secretary of State for Human Resources and Former Combatants
In office
26 October 2019 – 30 March 2022
Prime MinisterAntónio Costa
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Judge of the Constitutional Court
In office
4 February 2010 – 2 April 2019
Preceded byMário Torres
Succeeded byMariana Canotilho
Personal details
Born (1970-05-16) 16 May 1970 (age 54)
Coimbra, Portugal
Political partySocialist Party (2019–present)
Other political
affiliations		Independent (until 2019)
SpouseGuilherme da Silva Gomes
Alma materUniversity of Coimbra

Catarina Teresa Rola Sarmento e Castro (born 16 May 1970) is a Portuguese jurist and politician. As a member of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS), she became a deputy in the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic in the January 2022 Portuguese legislative election, representing Leiria. Between 2019 and 2022 she served as Secretary of State for Human Resources and Former Combatants. A professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Coimbra, she has also served as a judge in the Constitutional Court. She was appointed Minister of Justice in March 2022, following the 2022 Portuguese legislative election, when the PS won an overall majority, but lost the position after the March 2024 elelction, when the PS was defeated and the Democratic Alliance formed the government.

Early life and education

Catarina Teresa Rola Sarmento e Castro was born in Coimbra on 16 May 1970. Her father was Osvaldo Alberto do Rosário Sarmento e Castro, a former Socialist Party deputy in the Assembly of the Republic. She obtained undergraduate and master's degrees, as well as a PhD, from the Faculty of Law at the University of Coimbra and also studied for a postgraduate diploma at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium, with a dissertation entitled The notion of victim in the European Convention of the Rights of Man.

Career

Sarmento e Castro has been teaching at the University of Coimbra since 1999 and is now an assistant professor. Courses she has taught have included constitutional law and political science; police law; human rights; database protection; administrative courts; public procurement; and labour law. She has addressed these issues in various publications. She has also taught at the NOVA University Lisbon, the University of Lisbon and the Catholic University of Portugal.

Among her other roles, Sarmento e Castro has been a member of the advisory board of the Attorney General's Office and a member of the Superior Council of Administrative and Fiscal Courts. In 2010 she was elected to be a judge at the Constitutional Court, for a term of nine years. She has also been a member of the National Data Protection Commission. On 26 October 2019, she became the new Secretary of State for Human Resources and Former Combatants in the Ministry of National Defence.

Sarmento e Castro was elected to the Portuguese National Assembly in the January 2022 election. Standing for the Socialist Party (PS) she was third on the list of PS candidates for Leiria, in which the PS won five seats. Nationally, the PS won an overall majority of seats. Subsequently, she was appointed as Minister of Justice.

References

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  2. ^ "Catarina Sarmento e Castro, a nova ministra da Justiça que já foi juíza". SIC Noticias. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
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  4. ^ "Catarina Sarmento e Castro" (PDF). Ministry of Defence. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 March 2022. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
  5. "Doutora Catarina Teresa Rola Sarmento e Castro". University of Coimbra. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
  6. "Catarina Sarmento e Castro eleita para o Tribunal Constitucional". Público. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
  7. "Catarina Sarmento e Castro terceira eleita do PS por Leiria". Região de Leiria. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
Political offices
Preceded byFrancisca Van Dunem Minister of Justice
2022–present 		Incumbent
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