Assunção Cristas is a prominent leader of the Democratic and Social Center - People's Party, a conservative party in Portugal. As of 2011, she is the Portuguese Agriculture, Sea, Environment and Spatial Planning Minister. Graduated in law by the University of Lisbon, she is a lawyer

Lawyer

A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...

 by training and a professor at the New University of Lisbon

New University of Lisbon

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, , also known as NOVA ) was established in 1973 and is the youngest of the three public universities of Lisbon, in Portugal....

. She is married and mother of three children.