Rita Fragoso de Rhodes Alarcão Júdice de Abreu e Mota (born 8 December 1973) is a Portuguese lawyer and politician. She was elected as a member of the Assembly of the Republic in

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for the Coimbra constituency. She has been

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since 2024, in the XXIV Constitutional Government, led by

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. She has a degree in Law from the

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, Lisbon School (1997). She was a partner at the law firm PLMJ, founded by her father José Miguel Júdice, from 2013 to 2023 where she was co-coordinator of the Real estate and Tourism area. Between 1998 and 2023 she worked as a lawyer in the area of real estate law, also at PLMJ. She is a member of the executive committee of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Portugal and an associate of Women in Real Estate (WIRE Portugal).

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