Wilma de Faria | |
Office: | Natal City Alderman |
Term Start: | 1 January 2017 |
Term End: | 15 June 2017 |
Office2: | Vice Mayor of Natal |
Term Start2: | 1 January 2013 |
Term End2: | 1 January 2017 |
Predecessor2: | Paulinho Freire |
Successor2: | Álvaro Costa Dias |
Mayor2: | Carlos Eduardo Alves |
Office3: | 54th Governor of Rio Grande do Norte |
Term Start3: | 1 January 2003 |
Term End3: | 31 March 2010 |
Predecessor3: | Fernando Freire |
Successor3: | Iberê Ferreira |
Office4: | 38th Mayor of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte |
Term Start4: | 1 January 1997 |
Term End4: | 5 April 2002 |
Predecessor4: | Aldo Tinoco |
Successor4: | Carlos Eduardo Alves |
Office5: | 36th Mayor of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte |
Term Start5: | 1 January 1989 |
Term End5: | 1 January 1993 |
Predecessor5: | Garibaldi Alves Filho |
Successor5: | Aldo Tinoco |
Office6: | Member of the federal Chamber of Deputies for Rio Grande do Norte |
Term Start6: | 1986 |
Term End6: | 1988 |
Office7: | State Secretary of Labor and Social Well-being of Rio Grande do Norte |
Term Start7: | 1983 |
Term End7: | 1985 |
Office8: | First Lady of Rio Grande do Norte |
Term Start8: | 15 March 1979 |
Term End8: | 14 May 1982 |
Predecessor8: | Teresa Maia |
Successor8: | Anita Louise Catalão Maia |
Governor8: | Lavoisier Maia |
Birth Date: | 1945 2, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Mossoró, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil |
Death Place: | Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil |
Profession: | Academic |
Wilma de Faria (17 February 1945 – 15 June 2017) was a Brazilian politician. She served as the governor of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte from 2003 to 2010, the first woman to hold the position. She was a member of the AVANTE.[1]
Wilma de Faria died on 15 June 2017, aged 72, at São Lucas Nursing Home, in Natal, due to multiple organ failure. She was also victim of a cancer in the digestive system, diagnosed two years before.
Her corpse was veiled at Our Lady of the Presentation Cathedral and later buried at Morada da Paz Cemetery.[2]