What is Luiz Fux?
{{Infobox Judge |honorific-prefix = [[Excellency|His Excellency]] | name = Luiz Fux | image = Luiz Fux-2012-edit.jpg | imagesize = | caption = | office = [[Supreme Federal Court|President of the Supreme Federal Court]] | term_start = September 10, 2020 | vicepresident = [[Rosa Weber]] | predecessor = [[Dias Toffoli]] | office1 = [[Supreme Federal Court|Justice of the Supreme Federal Court]] | termstart1 = March 3, 2011 | termend1 = | appointer1 = [[Dilma Rousseff]] | predecessor1 = Eros Grau | successor1 = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1953|4|26}} | birth_place = [[Rio de Janeiro]], Brazil | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = Eliane Fux | children = Marianna<br>Rodrigo | alma_mater = [[State University of Rio de Janeiro]] | footnotes = {{Collapsible list | titlestyle = background:#EEDD82;text-align:center; | title = Other judicial positions | bullets = on | 2020–: President, [[National Justice Council]] | 2018–2020: Vice President, [[National Justice Council]] | 2018–2020: Vice President, [[Supreme Federal Court]] | 2018–2018: President, [[Superior Electoral Court]] | 2016–2018: Vice President, [[Superior Electoral Court]] | 2014–: Effective Justice, [[Superior Electoral Court]] | 2011–2014: Substitute Justice, [[Superior Electoral Court]] | 2001–2011: Justice, [[Superior Court of Justice (Brazil)|Superior Court of Justice]] }} }} '''Luiz Fux''' ({{IPA-pt|luˈis ˈfuks}}) (born 26 April 1953) is a [[Brazilian people|Brazilian]] [[judge]]. He is the current Chief Justice of the [[Supreme Federal Court]] since 2020. He was appointed as a justice of the Court by President [[Dilma Rousseff]] in 2011 and had his nomination approved by the [[Senate of Brazil|Senate]]. He is the first [[Jewish Brazilian]] member of the Court.<ref>{{cite news |title=Brazil's highest court names first Jewish justice |url=http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/02/10/2742926/brazils-highest-court-names-first-jew |publish