Luís Inácio Adams

Luís Inácio Lucena Adams (b. March 2, 1965, Porto Alegre) is a Brazilian lawyer who was appointed to be Brazil's Attorney General on October 23, 2009.[1]

Luís Inácio Adams
Attorney General of Brazil
In office
October 23, 2009 – March 3, 2016
PresidentLuis Inácio Lula da Silva
Dilma Rousseff
Preceded byDias Toffoli
Succeeded byJosé Eduardo Cardozo
Personal details
Born (1965-03-02) March 2, 1965
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Adams earned his LL.B from the Faculty of Law of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, the capital of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, and later pursued a LLM from the Faculty of Law of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, in Florianópolis, the capital of the State of Santa Catarina.[2]

He was attorney for the National Treasury from 1993. In 2006, assumed leadership of the Attorney General of the Treasury and will be the first minister of the AGU to belong to one of the careers of the institution. Both posts are held in Brasília, the capital of Brazil.[3]

References
  1. Globo.com. "Luís Inácio Adams toma posse no cargo de Advogado-Geral da União". (in Portuguese)
  2. Luís Inácio Adams toma posse na AGU nesta sexta (in Portuguese)
  3. Luís Inácio na Advocacia Geral da União (in Portuguese)
Legal offices
Preceded by
Dias Toffoli		 Attorney General of the Union
2009–2016		 Succeeded by
José Eduardo Cardozo


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