After 48 years dedicated to Labor Justice, judge Rita Albuquerque retires

Manaus (AM) – There were 48 years of services provided to the Labor Court and for the training of at least two generations of legal professionals. With a trajectory marked by achievements and overcoming challenges, judge Francisca Rita Alencar Albuquerque retires from the Regional Labor Court of the 11th Region (AM/RR). The retirement was published in the Official Gazette on the 21st.

The second oldest judge on the TRT-11 and with an inspiring career, she has been receiving several honors since the beginning of the year. Born in the Amazon, raised in the Educandos neighborhood (south zone), Rita Albuquerque launched herself into a professional activity early on, after her father’s early death. Social service was the first trade. “I was a social worker. I worked at the Penitentiary, at the Balbina Mestrinho Maternity”, recalls the judge.

Soon after, she joined the teaching profession, creating a link with Teaching that would be maintained even after becoming part of the Judiciary.

“Wow, wherever I go it’s just ‘teacher this’, ‘teacher that’. Generations that passed me by in the Law course at Ufam (Federal University of Amazonas), some even became my courtroom colleagues”,

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Although he has a master’s degree in the area of ​​Constitutional Law, due to the Labor Court, he ended up forming classes in the area of ​​Labor Law.

The story with the Labor Court began in 1975, when it entered the 8th Region, which at the time served all the states in the Northern Region. “I soon realized that if I didn’t go into law, I wouldn’t get anywhere,” he recalls. That’s what she did and in 1979 she was appointed as a substitute judge covering several municipalities in the interior.

TRT-11

In 1981, the TRT-11 was created to serve Amazonas and Roraima and the judge decided to remain in the Regional at a time when the judge was doing much more than his current assignments. “Today we have a whole team that advises us, in addition to the technology that has evolved”, she compares. And that’s how she held various functions within the court, even chairing the body in the 2006-2008 biennium.

It is in this exercise that the judge institutes the TRT-11 Judicial School (Ejud11) to collaborate with the training of judges and civil servants. “There was already jurisprudence for the installation of Ejud. I saw the opportunity and started. I am a teacher, after all,” she says.

The judge highlights that she sought to apply in her administration what she learned in a training course at the Escola Superior de Guerra.

“There I learned how to do my strategic planning, how to optimize resources and that is what I tried to implement at TRT”,

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Fire

“But not everything goes as we plan.”. The sentence is said by the magistrate Rita Albuquerque with a distant look as if she were back in time, on that fateful day in 2008 when a fire destroyed much of the TRT-11 headquarters. “The worst moment is when you see all the things on the street and ask: ‘What now? What are we going to do?”, she says. “So I looked at the building next door and asked: ‘Is this the one we have? So come on, let’s put eight floors together in three. And so it was done”.

As no process was affected by the fire, the workers were not harmed, but it took a lot of effort to adapt to the new location, says the judge.

Memory

During her presidency, Rita Albuquerque also initiated the institution of the TRT-11 Memory Center (Cemej11). “I had the idea after visiting the TST (Superior Labor Court) and other Regional Courts and seeing that they had these spaces there”, she says. Cemej today operates on Rua Barroso, in the Historic Center of Manaus and the beginning of its implementation resulted in the Garimpo Project, which rescues values ​​from processes that have already ended.

The magistrate was director of the Court’s Judicial School (Ejud 11) in two years and was also director of the TRT-11 Memory Center (Cemej). She was also the second president of the National Association of Labor Justice Magistrates in Amazonas and Roraima (Anamatra XI).

work justice

With no plans for the future, Rita Albuquerque says she just wants to know what it’s like to be without work. “I want to sleep one afternoon. Going out, going shopping, things I don’t do today“, it says. What the judge hopes is that her colleagues maintain the importance of Labor Justice for those who need it. “There has always been someone questioning the Labor Court, but look at the importance of the Specialized Court. If there was no Electoral Justice? If we didn’t have consumer rights, where would we be with so many people harmed?”, he asks.

She herself replies that, therefore, it is up to the Labor Court to make reparations, which are a way of distributing income that includes the people who need it most. “And see that this audience has also changed. Before, it was just the factory worker. Today we have doctors, merchants…”, she informs.

tributes

The tributes to the judge began in the first session of the Full Court on February 15, when she announced that she would apply for retirement. On February 28, in a session of the First Group of TRT-11, she again commented on the subject. The president of the First Panel, judge Solange Maria Santiago Morais highlighted the “impeccable” trajectory of magistrate Rita Albuquerque. “We will miss her,” she said.

Soon after, on March 15, another homage took place again in a session of the Full Court, with the presence of the president of TRT-11, judge Audaliphal Hildebrando, who granted judge Rita Albuquerque a commemorative plaque, while the vice president, judge Lairto José Veloso delivered a bunch of flowers. A video with highlights of the judge’s trajectory and testimonials from magistrates was also shown.

On the 26th, Faculdade Santa Teresa also honored the judge in a Women of Legal Career Panel. The event was attended by big names in the legal area, in addition to the judge Rita Albuquerque, such as judges Jaiza Fraxe, Luiza Simonetti, Anabel Mendonça, Omara Oliveira, Laura Santiago and Alice Bianchini, with the mediation of the Coordinator of the Law Course at Faculty Santa Teresa, professor Lúcia Viana, in addition to the presence of the maintainer Maria do Carmo and the director Amanda Estald.

The judge was also honored during the itinerant session of the 1st Panel in Boa Vista (RR), on March 28th. Lawyers from Roraima paid tribute representing the Brazilian Bar Association – Roraima Section (OAB/RR) and the Brazilian Association of Women in the Legal Career (ABCJ). The judge received a bouquet of flowers for the relevant services provided to the judiciary and teaching in legal courses.

She participated in the last trial session on May 30, when she was honored by members of the 1st Panel of TRT-11, other judges, judges and lawyers. The magistrate took the opportunity to donate documents and personal objects of historical value to the collection of the Memory Center of the 11th Region (Cemej11).

*With advisory information

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