Paula Maria von Hafe Teixeira da Cruz (born 1 June 1960) is a Portuguese lawyer and politician.

Leaving Angola in 1975 due to the events of the Carnation Revolution (1974) she attended Liceu Padre António Vieira, in Lisbon, Portugal[2] and graduated in law at the Universidade Livre de Lisboa in 1983.

[3] In 2006 she joined F. Castelo Branco & Associados, where she coordinated the Department of Public, Administrative and Environmental Law.

Paula Teixeira da Cruz is a member of Social Democratic Party since 1995.

Paula Teixeira da Cruz is divorced since October 1, 2008, from the businessman and former CEO of Banco Comercial Português Paulo Teixeira Pinto, whom she married in 1984 and with whom she had a daughter, Catarina, born in 1984, and a son, Paulo Guilherme, born in 1986, who died on November 1, 2008.