Brazil swears in first black supreme court president

AFP

Brazil judge Joaquim Barbosa took the oath of office as Brazil’s first ever black head of the Supreme Court on Thursday, in a historic ceremony attended by President Dilma Rousseff and other top leaders. The son of a bricklayer and a cleaner, Barbosa, 58, pledged in his swearing in.

From Wikipedia:

He is a former Justice of the Supreme Federal Court in Brazil. He served as the president of the court (Chief Justice) between 2012 and 2014. Barbosa studied law at University of Brasília (1979) and holds a master’s degree (1990) and a doctorate (1993) from Panthéon-Assas University.

In 2013, he was elected by Time magazine one of the 100 most influential people in the world.