| Honorific-Prefix: | Her Excellency |
| Assunção Esteves | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | GCC |
| Office: | President of the Assembly of the Republic |
| Term Start: | 21 June 2011 |
| Term End: | 23 October 2015 |
| Predecessor: | Jaime Gama |
| Successor: | Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues |
| Office1: | Member of the Assembly of the Republic |
| Term Start1: | 26 October 2009 |
| Term End1: | 23 October 2015 |
| Constituency1: | Vila Real |
| Term Start2: | 6 April 2002 |
| Term End2: | 20 June 2004 |
| Constituency2: | Vila Real |
| Term Start3: | 17 August 1987 |
| Term End3: | 2 August 1989 |
| Constituency3: | Vila Real |
| Office4: | Member of the European Parliament |
| Term Start4: | 20 June 2004 |
| Term End4: | 13 July 2009 |
| Constituency4: | Portugal |
| Office5: | Justice of the Constitutional Court |
| Term Start5: | 2 August 1989 |
| Term End5: | 11 March 1998 |
| Predecessor5: | Raul Mateus da Silva |
| Successor5: | Paulo Mota Pinto |
| Birth Date: | 15 October 1956 |
| Birth Place: | Valpaços, Portugal |
| Party: | Social Democratic Party |
| Spouse: | José Lamego (divorced) |
| Profession: | Jurist |
| Alma Mater: | Catholic University of Portugal |
Maria da Assunção Andrade Esteves[1] (born 15 October 1956) is a Portuguese politician who was President of the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal from 2011 to 2015. She was a Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party - People's Party coalition, part of the European People's Party - European Democrats group,[2] from 2004 to 2009.
Born in Valpaços, Valpaços, Assunção Esteves holds both a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, where she was an assistant between 1989 and 1999. During that time, she was also a Justice of the Portuguese Constitutional Court from 1989 to 1998.
On 21 June 2011 she became the first female President of the Assembly of the Republic.[3] At the time, being unable to receive both her salary of €5,219.15 as President of the Assembly and her retirement pension of €7,255, which she started receiving at the age of 42, for having been a Justice of the Portuguese Constitutional Court, she chose to keep her retirement pension. Additionally, she received €2,133 for work expenses.[4] [5]
Sash of the Order of the Aztec Eagle (17 August 2015)
Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun (26 July 2013)[7]
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