Rita Júdice

Rita Fragoso de Rhodes Alarcão Júdice de Abreu e Mota is a Portuguese lawyer and politician. She was elected as a member of the Assembly of the Republic in 2024 for the Coimbra constituency and again in the May 2025 election. She has been Minister of Justice since 2024, in the XXIV Constitutional Government, led by Luís Montenegro.
She has a degree in Law from the Portuguese Catholic University, Lisbon School. 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 Portugal and an associate of Women in Real Estate.