Office of the Solicitor-General in Brazil

Solicitor-General of the Union
Current minister	Luis Inácio Adams since: October 23, 2009
Established	12 February 1993
Command structure	Presidency
Website	www.agu.gov.br

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The Solicitor-General of the Union (Advogado-Geral da União) represents the Brazilian Union before national courts and also provides legal advice to the Brazilian executive branch.

The legal representation of the Union, performed by the Office of the Solicitor-General of the Union, also known as AGU (from Portuguese Advocacia-Geral da União), is defined by the 1988 Brazilian Constitution as one of the essential functions of Brazilian judicial administration, along with the roles performed by the judicial branch, the Prosecutor's office, the public defenders and private lawyers.

All State Attorneys within the Office must be bar members in Brazil. The Solicitor-General of the Union is a member of the Brazilian cabinet, holds the rank of Minister, and is nominated by the President of the Republic, after the Senate´s approval. To be appointed, though, the Solicitor-General must be at least 35 years old, according to the Brazilian Constitution.

The Office of the Solicitor-General of the Union was created in 1993 with the main purpose of separating the prosecution activities - performed by the Office of the Prosecutor-General - from the activities related to the legal representation of the State and government advising, formerly performed by an only institution called "Office of the Attorney-General".

List of Brazilian Solicitors-General of the Union

Solicitor-General	Date of service	Appointed by
José de Castro Ferreira	February 1993—May 1993	President Itamar Franco
Alexandre de Paula Dupeyrat Martins	May 1993—June 1993
Tarcísio Carlos de Almeida Cunha	June 1993—July 1993
Geraldo Magela da Cruz Quintão	July 1993—December 1994
	January 1995—January 2000	President Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Walter do Carmo Barletta	January 2000
Gilmar Ferreira Mendes	January 2000—June 2002
José Bonifácio Borges de Andrada	June 2002—December 2002
Álvaro Augusto Ribeiro Costa	January 2003—March 2007	President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
José Antônio Dias Toffoli	March 2007—October 2009
Luis Inácio Lucena Adams	October 2009—present

See also

• Attorney General (disambiguation)
• Attorney General in Brazil
• Attorney General

External links

• Official website of the Brazilian Office of the Attorney-General of the Union (in Portuguese)