Doris Morales
President of the Supreme Court of Uruguay
Assumed office
1 February 2023
Preceded byJohn Pérez Brignani
Justice of the Supreme Court of Uruguay
Assumed office
8 February 2022
Preceded byLuis Tosi Boeri
Personal details
Born
Doris Perla Morales Martínez

(1959-09-25) 25 September 1959
Fray Marcos, Uruguay
EducationUniversity of the Republic

Doris Perla Morales Martínez (born 25 September 1959) is a Uruguayan lawyer who serves as a minister of the Supreme Court of Uruguay.[1]

Early life and education

Morales was born in Fray Marcos, Florida and raised in Bolívar, one of the smallest towns in the Canelones Department.[2] She graduated from the University of the Republic in 1982 with a law degree.[3] In 1987 she took the Labor Law graduate course at the University of the Republic, while from 1988 to 1989 she took the preparation course to enter the magistracy.

Career

Two years after graduating, Morales began her teaching career in Forensic Techniques at the Law School of the University of the Republic, in 1986 she began teaching Procedural Law at the same college, and in 2000 at the University of Montevideo, as an assistant in the Introduction to Procedural Law class.[4] In 2005 she was appointed interim group manager in Procedural Law II in the law degree at the University of the Republic.[5]

Morales entered the Judiciary in 1989 as a Lawyer Judge (Spanish: Jueza Letrada) in Paysandú. In 1994, she held the same position in Las Piedras and a year later she took office as Family Lawyer Judge in Montevideo. In 2003 she was appointed to the Labor Court of Appeals, while continuing to teach at the university.

Morales succeeded Luis Tosi Boeri as Justice of the Supreme Court, after he retired on October 27, 2021.[6] Since 90 days had elapsed since that date without an appointment by the General Assembly, Morales —who was the member of the Court of Appeals with the longest tenure in her position—, was automatically appointed to the position, in accordance with the provisions of Article 236 of the Constitution of the Republic.[7] She took office as minister of the Supreme Court of Justice on February 8, 2022, after swearing in the position before the General Assembly.[8] After her swearing in, the highest court had, for the first time, a mostly female integration, when she was accompanied by associate judges Bernadette Minvielle Sánchez and Elena Martínez Rosso.[9] On February 1, 2023, she took office as president of the Supreme Court for the 2023 annual term, succeeding John Pérez Brignani.[10][11]

References

  1. ↑ "Women now make up the majority in Uruguay's Supreme Court". ADN América. Retrieved 2022-11-09.
  2. ↑ "La futura presidenta – Diario El Telégrafo". www.eltelegrafo.com. Retrieved 2022-11-09.
  3. ↑ "Juró Doris Morales y la Suprema Corte de Justicia tiene mayoría femenina por primera vez". Montevideo Portal (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-11-09.
  4. ↑ "Ministra Morales interesada en la calidad de la capacitación de los jueces". www.poderjudicial.gub.uy (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2022-11-09.
  5. ↑ diaria, la (2023-02-01). "La ministra Doris Morales asume hoy como presidenta de la Suprema Corte de Justicia". la diaria (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-02-07.
  6. ↑ diaria, la (2022-01-26). "Suprema Corte quedó con mayoría de mujeres por primera vez en su historia al asumir Doris Morales". la diaria (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-11-09.
  7. ↑ "Constitución de la República Oriental del Uruguay". www.impo.com.uy. Retrieved 2022-11-09.
  8. ↑ "Doris Morales asumió como Ministra de la Suprema Corte de Justicia". www.poderjudicial.gub.uy (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2022-11-09.
  9. ↑ de 2022, 9 de Febrero. "Por primera vez en la historia, la mayoría de los magistrados de la Suprema Corte de Uruguay son mujeres". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2022-11-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ↑ "Doris Morales, la mujer que hizo historia en la Suprema Corte y el compromiso que asumió con el interior". 2023-02-01. Archived from the original on 2023-02-01. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
  11. ↑ "Asumió Doris Morales como nueva presidenta de la Suprema Corte de Justicia". subrayado.com.uy (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-02-07.
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