Alice Vera Cruz
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Alice Vera Cruz | |
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| President of the Supreme Court of São Tomé and Príncipe | |
| Assumed office 2001 | |
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| Born | 1955 (age 69–70) |
Maria Alice Rodrigues Vera Cruz de Carvalho (born 1955) is a São Toméan jurist who served as President of the country's Supreme Court from 2001.
Cruz was educated in Brazil and became a student of Gilmar Mendes, president of the Supreme Federal Court.[1] She practiced law in Brazil and Portugal.[2]
Cruz was elected president of the Supreme Court of São Tomé and Príncipe in May 2011, making her the first woman to hold the position.[2] In January 2003, Cruz and Prime Minister Maria das Neves successfully mediated a solution after President Fradique de Menezes dissolved the National Assembly.[3]
On 21 November 2008, Cruz was a signatory to the Declaration constituting the Conference of Constitutional Jurisdictions of the Portuguese-Speaking Countries.[4] As of 2017, she remains a justice on the Supreme Court.[5]
