Jussara Lima | |
Office: | Senator for Piauí |
Term Start: | 6 February 2023 |
Predecessor: | Wellington Dias |
Office2: | Vice-mayor of Fronteiras |
Term Start2: | 12 October 2011 |
Term End2: | 1 January 2013 |
Predecessor2: | Norberto Ângelo Pereira Neto |
Successor2: | Maria José Ayres de Sousa |
Office3: | Councilwoman of Fronteiras |
Term Start3: | 1 January 1989 |
Term End3: | 1 January 1993 |
Birth Name: | Antônia Jussara Gomes Alves de Sousa Lima |
Birth Date: | 5 December 1960 |
Birth Place: | Fronteiras, Piauí, Brazil |
Party: | PFL (1987–2007) DEM (2007) PTB (2007–2015) PSD (2015–present) |
Alma Mater: | Catholic University of Pernambuco |
Antônia Jussara Gomes Alves de Sousa Lima (born 5 December 1960) is a Brazilian sociologist and politician who is a senator from the state of Piauí. She has been in the position since 2023, replacing Wellington Dias who became the Minister of Social Development. She had previously been the vice-mayor of and councilwoman in her hometown of Fronteiras. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD).[1] [2] [3] [4]
The daughter of José Alves de Sousa and Maria Gomes Alves de Sousa, she graduated from the Catholic University of Pernambuco and became a sociologist. She was elected as a councilwoman in Fronteiras as part of the Liberal Front Party (PFL) in 1988.[5] The first woman elected to the city council, she served a term before running again to be vice-mayor in 2011. She was elected as part of the Brazilian Labour Party (PTB), with Eudes Agripino Ribeiro as the mayoral candidate.[6] Due to family issues, she switched her affiliation to the PSD, losing reelection as vice-mayor in 2016.
Lima's husband is federal deputy and her son is state deputy . She was elected as the first substitute for Wellington Dias during the 2022 general elections, eventually succeeding him as he became a minister in the Lula cabinet.