Ideli Salvatti

Ideli Salvatti is a Brazilian politician. She became the first woman to be elected senator of the state of Santa Catarina. She was the Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture in the Dilma Rousseff Government. She later worked in the Secretariat of Institutional Relations and Secretariat of Human Rights.^[1][2][3][4]

Ideli Salvatti
Secretary of Human Rights
In office 1 April 2014 – 16 April 2015
President	Dilma Rousseff
Preceded by	Maria do Rosário
Succeeded by	Pepe Vargas
Secretary of Institutional Affairs
In office 10 June 2011 – 1 April 2014
President	Dilma Rousseff
Preceded by	Luiz Sérgio Nóbrega
Succeeded by	Ricardo Berzoini
Minister of Fishing and Aquaculture
In office 1 January 2011 – 10 June 2011
President	Dilma Rousseff
Preceded by	Altemir Gregolin
Succeeded by	Luiz Sérgio Nóbrega
Senator for Santa Catarina
In office 1 February 1995 – 1 January 2011
Congress Government Leader
In office 18 May 2009 – 10 July 2010
Preceded by	Roseana Sarney
Succeeded by	Gilmar Machado
State Deputy of Santa Catarina
In office 1 January 1995 – 1 January 2003
Personal details
Born	(1952-03-18) 18 March 1952 (age 73) São Paulo, Brazil
Political party	PT (1980–present)
Profession	Teacher

Biography

She graduated with a degree in Physics from the University of Paraná . She married Eurides Mescolotto and had two children and later she married Jeferson Figueiredo in 2009.