Maria dos Prazeres Beleza (born 1956) is a Portuguese judge and professor of law who served as vice-president of the Supreme Court of Justice between 2018 and 2023, the first woman to hold this position.
Her education was disrupted by the Carnation Revolution that overthrew the Estado Novo dictatorship in April 1974 and she subsequently retook some of the courses at the Catholic University of Portugal before returning to the University of Lisbon to graduate.
She was elected by her fellow judges to be one of the two vice presidents of the Supreme Court in October 2018.
[1][2][3][4][5] In 2021 she was one of three candidates for the position of the president of the court but came second to Henrique Luís de Brito Araújo in the ballot.
[6][7] Beleza was made alumnus of the year by the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University in 2015.