Adriana Alves dos Santos Cruz is a Brazilian jurist,federal judge for the state of Rio de Janeiro . She is notable for becoming, in 1999, one of the first black federal judges in the country, and for having led several initiatives to promote human rights and racial equality in the Judiciary.
Adriana graduated in Law from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1993. She has a master’s degree in Constitutional Law and State Theory from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, in 2010, and a doctorate in Criminal Law from the State University of Rio de Janeiro, in 2018.
Adriana took office as a federal judge in 1999, being part of the 2% of federal judges who declare themselves black. She works as head of the 5th Federal Criminal Court of the state of Rio de Janeiro, specializing in the trial of money laundering and crimes against the financial system.
Member of the Executive Committee of the Human Rights Observatory of the Judiciary, an initiative of the National Council of Justice. She was one of the creators of the National Meeting of Black Judges (ENAJUN), which has taken place annually since 2017, and of the National Forum of Judges against Racism and all forms of Discrimination (Fonajurd), launched in 2020.
In 2015, she was called up as an instructor magistrate in the office of the minister of the Federal Supreme Court, Luis Roberto Barroso.
In 2023, a group of entities representing the black movement, with the support of dozens of legal entities, included Adriana in a triple list of nominations for black judges to join the STF in the vacancy of minister Rosa Weber, who has reached compulsory retirement age. in September this year.
The movement aims to support the nomination of a black woman to the STF for the first time in its 132-year history.
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