For the first time, the CSM has appointed a woman president of the Cassation.
You are Margherita Cassano
, former president of the Court of Appeal of Florence and currently "deputy" of the outgoing president of the Supreme Court, Pietro Curzio, who you are taking over.
The appointment was unanimously decided by the plenum of the CSM, chaired by the head of state Sergio Mattarella.
Florentine, but of Lucan origin, daughter of a high magistrate, Cassano is 67 years old and entered the judicial order in 1980, at 25 years old.
She was also a councilor of the CSM from 1998 to 2002.
"Today is a historic day for our judiciary and for the country - said the Minister for Institutional Reforms and Regulatory Simplification Elisabetta Casellati -. With her appointment as first president of the Court of Cassation, Margherita Cassano breaks another taboo, becoming the first woman to hold the position of highest judge in Italy. It is another very important step in the long and tiring journey of female emancipation and towards the coveted goal of gender equality. A result that Margherita Cassano was able to achieve thanks to her undisputed professional skills and a cursus honorum which has always seen her protagonist in first-rate roles".
Cassano's, she adds, "is a story of a magistrate who best honors merit because it is built on skills,
on balance and on jurisdictional and work culture.
My warmest congratulations go to the new president of the Court of Cassation, in the certainty that he will be able to best carry out this delicate and prestigious task ", he concludes.
