Jorge Messias
Jorge Rodrigo Araújo Messias is a Brazilian attorney, incumbent Attorney General of Brazil nominated by president Luiz [Inácio Lula da Silva]. He joined the Attorney General's Office in 2007 as prosecutor of National Finances and served as deputy chief for legal affairs of the Chief of Staff during the presidency of Dilma Rousseff.
Messias also worked as prosecutor in the Central Bank of Brazil and the Brazilian Development Bank, legal consultant in the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, secretary of regulation and oversight of Higher Education in the Ministry of Education, deputy chief of government political analysis and follow-up in the Chief of Staff and parliamentary assistant to senator Jaques Wagner.
He gained notoriety in 2016, after being mentioned in a phone call recording between then-president Dilma Rousseff and former president Lula, who was being investigated as part of Operation Car Wash and was nominated, but not yet sworn-in, as Chief of Staff. In an audio leaked by judge Sergio Moro, Dilma informed that she would forward, through "Bessias", the term of office for use "in case of need".
Regarding the mention in the call, Messias stated that, in that occasion, he was an assistant at the Presidency fulfilling his role and that the publishing of a cut and out of context audio aimed to destabilize Rousseff's administration.
Messias is Bachelor of Laws at the Federal University of Pernambuco and Master of Development, Society and International Cooperation at University of Brasília.
In November 2022, Messias was the most voted by his peers in a sixfold list for the office of Attorney General of the Union, made by the National Union of National Finances Prosecutors, the National Association of Members of the Attorney General of the Union and the National Association of the Attorneys of the Union.
On 20 November 2025, president Lula nominated Messias to the Supreme Federal Court seat vacated by the retirement of Luís Roberto Barroso. The nomination now awaits confirmation by the Senate.