Clementina Sganzini

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Clementina Sganzini (born November 8, 1927 in Vira (Gambarogno) ; † January 16, 2016 in Viganello ) was a Swiss lawyer , first female judge in Ticino and president of the Ticino Court of Appeal .

Life

Sganzini was the daughter of the linguist Silvio Sganzini and his wife Aurora nee Pedrini. In the 1930s the family moved to Pisa and from 1943 settled in Lugano , where they attended the cantonal high school and graduated from high school in July 1946 . She then studied at the University of Milan , where she completed her law degree on July 7, 1951.

On her return, she completed her legal apprenticeship at the Lugano Città Municipal Court and in the office of the lawyer Emilio Rava. In 1954 she was admitted to the bar and in September 1954 she opened her own law firm. A career in justice and notary was not possible for women in Ticino until February 1971.

Sganzini was one of the first women lawyers in the canton of Ticino. In order to open up more professional opportunities for women, she joined the social women's movement and later the Gruppo Donne Liberali of Lugano. In 1957, Sganzini closed her law firm in order to be able to offer free legal advice to the women's movements and to give civics lessons.

Until 1961 she worked as a secretary and supervisor at the District Court of Lugano (Pretura di Lugano Campagna) and then for a decade as a teacher at the commercial schools for women and as an employee of the law firm Tettamanti -Spiess-Dotta in Lugano.

In 1971 she passed the notary's examination and opened a new law firm. In March 1972, Sganzini was elected by the Liberal Radical Party (PLR) as judge of the Court of Appeal , President of the Court of Cassation and Criminal Justice and Vice-President of the First Civil Chamber. In 1982 she was re-elected and four years later she was the first woman to be entrusted with the presidency of the Ticino Court of Appeal .

At the age of 65, she could no longer stand up for the appeals court and was appointed as a substitute. In retirement, she was a judge at the cantonal criminal court for years.

In 1998, together with Don Corrado Cortella , she started the “Aurora Project” (Fondazione Progetto aurora) to help women choose an alternative to abortion.

Fonts

  • Coincidenze e diformità strutturali tra gli istituti fondamentali del codice penale svizzero e del codice penale italiano (coincidences and structural differences between the basic institutions of the Swiss Criminal Code and the Italian Criminal Code). Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, 1951, S. Datt. Lp
  • La donna che divorzia nel diritto svizzero (The woman who gets divorced under Swiss law). Accademia Giuridica Umbra, Perugia, 1960.

literature

  • Franca Cleis: Ermiza e le altre, il percorso della scrittura femminile nella Svizzera italiana con bibliografia degli scritti e biografie delle autrici (Ermiza and the others, the way of female writing in Italian Switzerland with bibliography of the writings and biographies of the authors). Rosenberg & Sellier, Turin, 1993.
  • Gabriele Piffaretti: Elsa Franconi Poretti (Gruppo donne liberali di Lugano) in "Tracce di Donne", 2014
  • Osvaldo Benzi, Carlo Pozzi: The imperfect equality of the sexes (La parità imperfetta tra i sessi). This television report by Ticino television (RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera di lingua italiana) was broadcast on April 12, 1966 in the program "La donna oggi" (The woman of today).
  • "Giornata in Tribunale d'Appello, intervista a Clementina Sganzini" in RSI "Il quotidiano", edition of June 16, 1986.
  • "Il giuramento del Consiglio di Stato" in RSI "Il quotidiano", edition of April 16, 1987.
  • "Progetto Aurora" in RSI "Il quotidiano", April 14, 1998 edition.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rivista di Lugano of November 18, 2016: Antichi ricordi Scuola commerciale femminile di Lugano nel 1963
  2. ↑ Clementina Sganzini (1927-2016). Associazione Archivi Riuniti delle Donne Ticino, accessed July 15, 2019 (Italian).
  3. ^ Gabriele Piffaretti: Elsa Franconi Poretti in "Tracce di Donne"
  4. ↑ RSI of April 12, 1966 "La donna oggi": La parità imperfetta tra i sessi
  5. ↑ RSI Video Gallery "Donne Storie": Clementina Sganzini (1927-2016)
personal data
SURNAME Sganzini, Clementina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer, judge
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Vira (Gamborogno)
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 2016
Place of death Viganello