Ana Maria Guerra Martins

Ana Maria Guerra Martins (born 22 July 1963, Lisbon) is a Portuguese jurist and a judge at the European Court of Human Rights.

Education and early life Guerra Martins studied law at the University of Lisbon, where she graduated in 1986 with a BSc. In 1993 she obtained a MSc in Law of the European Union from the same university.

Academic career After her return to Portugal in 1999, she became a lecturer in at the University of Lisbon. In the year 2000, she became the junior lecturer for international human rights and constitutional law at the University of Lisbon. Between 2006 and 2007 she acted as the general inspector of justice in Portugal. In October 2019, Guerra Martins was elected as the successor to Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque as the representative of Portugal as a judge at the ECHR. She is the first woman to represent Portugal at the ECHR, and began her term in office on 1 April 2020.