Nelson Jobim

Nelson Jobim
Minister of Defence of Brazil
In office 25 July 2007 – 4 August 2011
Preceded by	Waldir Pires
Succeeded by	Celso Amorim
Chief Justice of Brazil
In office 3 June 2004  – 29 March 2006
Preceded by	Maurício Corrêa
Succeeded by	Ellen Gracie
Supreme Federal Court Justice
In office 15 April 1997 – 29 March 2006
Appointed by	Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Preceded by	Francisco Rezek
Succeeded by	Cármen Lúcia
Personal details
Born	Nelson Azevedo Jobim 12 April 1946 Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul
Residence	Brasília, Brazil
Profession	Jurist, politician

Nelson Azevedo Jobim (born 12 April 1946) is a Brazilian jurist and politician. He served as the Minister of Defense of Brazil from 2007 to 2011. He is a distant relative of musician Antônio Carlos Jobim.

Jobim was born in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, the son of Hélvio Jobim and Namy Azevedo Jobim, and the grandson of former governor of Rio Grande do Sul, . He attended the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre from 1964 to 1968, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Social and Legal Sciences. He taught philosophy of law and procedural law at the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. His brothers are Walter Jobim Neto and Hélvio Jobim Filho.

After graduation, he began practicing as a lawyer. He was chairman of the sub-section of the Order of Attorneys of Brazil in Santa Maria from 1977 to 1978, and was vice president of the Rio Grande do Sul section of the Brazilian Bar Association from 1985 to 1986. He was also a member of the Office of Lawyers of Rio Grande do Sul and the , based in Rio de Janeiro. Jobim served as an Adjunct Professor of the Department of Law for the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria from 1980 to 1986. Jobim also sporadically taught graduate classes at the Department of Law of the Universidade de Brasília in the early 1990s. In 2013 he was nominated director of the Center for Technology & Society at Fundação Getulio Vargas, succeeding Ronaldo Lemos, the founder and director of the Center for the previous 10 years.

Jobim was a federal deputy for the 48th and 49th legislatures, from 1987 to 1995. During this time, he became leader of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), and chaired the Commission on Constitution and Justice and the Editorial Board of Deputies in 1989. He served as Minister of Justice from 1 January 1995 to 7 April 1997 under the government of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. While Justice Minister, Jobim lobbied for the decriminalization of the use of marijuana, saying "The drug user must be helped and not persecuted as a criminal." He also was responsible for the demarcation of Indian lands as head of the Ministry of Justice, though three years earlier he represented the state of Pará in a failed effort to have an Indian reserve in Pará declared unconstitutional.

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