Luís Inácio Adams

Luís Inácio Adams
former Attorney General of the Union of Brazil
In office
October 23, 2009  March 3, 2016
Nominated by Luis Inácio Lula da Silva
Preceded by José Antonio Dias Toffoli
Succeeded by José Eduardo Cardozo
Personal details
Born (1965-03-02) March 2, 1965
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Religion Roman Catholic

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]

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]

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