Fernanda Contri

Italian jurist and politician (born 1935)

Fernanda Contri

Minister of Social Affairs
In office 28 April 1993 – March 1994
Prime Minister	Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Minister of State
In office 1992–1993
Prime Minister	Giuliano Amato

Personal details
Born	1935 (age 88–89)
Nationality	Italian

Fernanda Contri (born 1935) is an Italian retired jurist and politician. She is one of the Italian women who hold senior positions in the Italian judiciary system.^[1]

Biography

Contri was born in 1935.^[1] She joined the Higher Council of the Judiciary in 1986.^[1] She was the minister of state in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Giuliano Amato in the period 1992–1993.^[2] Then she was named the minister of social affairs to cabinet of Carlo Azeglio Ciampi in 1993 and was in office until March 1994.^[2] From October 1993 to February 1994 she developed an immigration reform bill in a commission called the Contri Commission.^[3]^[4]^[5] However, due to the fall of the cabinet in March 1994, the bill, known as Contri Bill, was not approved and materialized although it was the most comprehensive legal framework on immigration in Italy and offered many advantages to the migrants.^[4]^[5]

In 1996, President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro appointed her to the Constitutional Court as a judge which she held until 2005.^[2]^[6] During her term she also served as its vice president in 2004.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Valeria Palumbo (9 March 2016). "Le politiche che hanno fatto l'Italia". Corriere Della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 25 March 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Annamaria Barbato Riccii (10 August 2019). "Fernanda Contri: "Una donna presidente della Repubblica? Ora i tempi sono maturi"". Il Messaggero (in Italian). Retrieved 25 March 2022.
^ Giovanna Zincone (2006). "The Making of Policies: Immigration and Immigrants in Italy". Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 32 (3): 353. doi:10.1080/13691830600554775. S2CID 144930474.
^ ^a ^b Gino Moliterno, ed. (2002). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture. London; New York: Routledge. p. 396. ISBN 978-1-134-75877-7.
^ ^a ^b Giovanna Zincone (2014). "Illegalite, enlightenment and ambiguity: A hot Italian recipe". In Joaquin Arango; Martin Baldwin-Edwards (eds.). Immigrants and the Informal Economy in Southern Europe. London; New York: Routledge. p. 56. ISBN 978-1-135-25942-6.
^ Maria Rita Bartolomei (2016). "Legal cultures in transition: The role of Italian jurist women". In Eva Schandevyl (ed.). Women in Law and Lawmaking in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe. London; New York: Routledge. p. 268. ISBN 978-1-134-77506-4.