Elena Martínez Rosso

Martínez Rosso graduated from the University of the Republic with a degree in law. She entered the Judiciary in 1981 as a Justice of the Peace (Spanish: Jueza de paz) in the Colonia Department.^[1]

She served as a Justice of the Peace in the Canelones Department from 1983 to 1988, then as a member of the Misdemeanor Court (Spanish: Tribunal de Faltas).^[2] In 1989 she was appointed as a Lawyer Judge (Spanish: Jueza Letrada) in the San José Department and a year later as head of the Legal Court of First Instance of Labor.^[3] On March 13, 2002, she assumed justice of the 6th Turn Civil Appeals Court, a position she held until 2015.

Martínez succeeded Jorge Ruibal as Justice of the Supreme Court, after he retired in June 2015.^[4] She was sworn in before the General Assembly on September 2, 2015, becoming the fourth woman to serve as such.^[5] She presided over the court in the 2018-2019 annual term.^[6]

On February 1, 2024, she again assumed the rotating presidency of the Supreme Court, succeeding Doris Morales Martínez.^[7] She is a professor at the Law School of the Catholic University of Uruguay.^[3]

Martínez Rosso is married to National Representative Ope Pasquet.^[2] They have two daughters, Florencia and Victoria.^[8]