Regional Federal Courts

Headquarters of the Regional Federal Court for the Third Region, in São Paulo

The Regional Federal Courts (in Portuguese, Tribunais Regionais Federais, commonly called TRFs) are the appellate courts of Brazil's federal court system. There are currently five Regional Federal Courts, one to each geographically defined Federal Justice region. They are composed primarily by career judges, promoted alternatively between seniority and merit. The Brazilian constitution mandates that a fifth of the members should be lawyers and public prosecutors, chosen in an alternate manner.

Federal Justice regions

Brazilian Federal Justice is divided nationally into five geographically defined regions, each served by an appellate court:

Seated in Brasília, Federal District, this appellate court covers the states of Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Bahia, Goiás, Maranhão, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso, Pará, Piauí, Rondônia, Roraima and Tocantins, as well as the Brazilian Federal District.
Seated in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, this appellate court covers the states of Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro.
Seated in São Paulo, São Paulo, this appellate court covers the states of Mato Grosso do Sul and São Paulo.
Seated in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, this appellate court covers the states of Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina.
Seated in Recife, Pernambuco, this appellate court covers the states of Alagoas, Ceará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Rio Grande do Norte and Sergipe.
The geographical jurisdictions of the Brazilian Regional Federal Courts:
  Regional Federal Court of the 1st Region
  Regional Federal Court of the 2nd Region
  Regional Federal Court of the 3d Region
  Regional Federal Court of the 4th Region
  Regional Federal Court of the 5th Region

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