| Elena Martínez Rosso | |
| Office: | President of the Supreme Court of Uruguay |
| Term Start: | 1 February 2024 |
| Predecessor: | Doris Morales Martínez |
| Predecessor2: | Jorge Ruibal |
| Education: | University of the Republic |
| Termstart1: | 1 February 2018 |
| Predecessor1: | Jorge Chediak |
| Office2: | Justice of the Supreme Court of Uruguay |
| Termstart2: | 2 September 2015 |
| Termend1: | 1 February 2019 |
| Successor1: | Eduardo Turell Araquistain |
| Spouse: | Ope Pasquet |
Elena Martínez Rosso is a Uruguayan lawyer and lecturer who serves as a minister of the Supreme Court of Uruguay since 2015.
Martínez Rosso graduated from the University of the Republic with a degree in law. She entered the Judiciary in 1981 as a Justice of the Peace in the Colonia Department.[1]
She served as a Justice of the Peace in the Canelones Department from 1983 to 1988, then as a member of the Misdemeanor Court .[2] In 1989 she was appointed as a Lawyer Judge in the San José Department and a year later as head of the Legal Court of First Instance of Labor.[3] On March 13, 2002, she assumed justice of the 6th Turn Civil Appeals Court, a position she held until 2015.
Martínez succeeded Jorge Ruibal as Justice of the Supreme Court, after he retired in June 2015.[4] She was sworn in before the General Assembly on September 2, 2015, becoming the fourth woman to serve as such.[5] She presided over the court in the 2018-2019 annual term.[6]
On February 1, 2024, she again assumed the rotating presidency of the Supreme Court, succeeding Doris Morales Martínez.[7] She is a professor at the Law School of the Catholic University of Uruguay.
Martínez Rosso is married to National Representative Ope Pasquet.[2] They have two daughters, Florencia and Victoria.[8]