Cristiane Rodrigues Britto (born 25 January 1979) is a Brazilian lawyer and politician. She had served as Minister of Women, Family and Human Rights.

Biography

Children of entrepreneurs Romualdo Raimundo Rodrigues and Zilmar de Olivera Rodrigues, Britto is Bachelor of Laws from Gama Filho University, with specialization in election law from Southern Santa Catarina University (UNISUL). She is married to lawyer Flávio Eduardo Wanderley Britto, substitute electoral

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of the

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Regional Electoral Court (TRE-DF) from 2017 to 2019. She works as an election lawyer in the Federal District since 2003, associated to the Brazilian Academy of Election and Political Law (ABRADEP). She was member and had served as vice-chair of the Election Law Commission of the Federal District Sectional of the

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(PAB-DF) at the time her husband was substitute electoral desembargador.

Political life

Member of the legal body of the political party

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, in May 2019, Britto was nominated to head the National Secretariat for Women's Politics (SNPM), being part of the

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administration team in the Ministry of Woman, Family and Human Rights. In March 2022, with the leaving of Alves, she took office as Minister of Woman, Family and Human Rights of

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government.

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