dafter Martha Cartabiafirst woman to President of the Constitutional Court and after the first female Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloninow it’s the turn of the Court of Cassation where on March 1st the new President will land, whose name is Margaret Cassano.
Margherita Cassano breaks another glass roof
And so, also in this case the glass roof of the so-called “Palazzaccio” was broken for the first time in history in the name of gender equality. It had never happened in the history of the Italian judiciary
Fiorentina, born in 1955 and daughter of a high magistrate president both in the Court of Assizes and in the Court of Assizes of appeal of many trials of red and black terrorism in the hot years of the armed struggle, Cassano will leadhitherto an absolute male prerogative, the Supreme Court of which he is currently deputy president.
There appointment must be confirmed on March 1st by the plenum of the CSM, the Supreme Council of the Judiciary in the presence of President Mattarella, but it will be a simple formality.
Margherita Cassano will lead the Court of Cassation from March 1st. It had never happened in the history of the Italian judiciary. (Handle)
A long career in the judiciary
Cassano has a long career in the judiciary, where since 1980 he has been a member of the Independent Judiciarythe current of robes that defines itself as more “moderate”.
This last milestone is not, however, the first achieved: in fact, Cassano had already been the first woman to access the leadership of the Supreme Court with the role of “number two” of the Cassation which he has held since 2020.
At the time Cassano said: «The day will come when an appointment like mine will no longer be news, and then yes, for real, that will be a great day for all women».
A life for work
She started at the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Florence, then in 1982 she joined the team of the prosecutor Pier Luigi Vigna with whom she was a prosecutor for years, coordinating the first investigations into large drug trafficking and infiltrations in Tuscany of organized crime, themes that he continued to follow throughout his career.
From 1991 to 1998 she was assigned the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Florence.
Then it landed at the Court of Cassation in 2003 where she was also president of the first criminal section, a role in which she dealt with crimes of murder and violence. After that since 2016 she has presided over the Court of Appeal of Florence where she remained for about four years. Now, from next March 1 she will be the highest-ranking judge in Italy. He will become a member of the self-governing body of the robes, the Csm.
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