This is a list of the Italian ministers of justice since 1946. The minister of justice is a senior member of the Italian Cabinet and leads the Ministry of Justice.
The first Italian minister of justice is Giovanni Battista Cassinis, member of the Historical Right, who held the office in 1861 in the government of Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour; while the longest-serving minister was Alfredo Rocco, who served in the fascist government of Benito Mussolini from 1925 until 1932. The current minister is Carlo Nordio, appointed on 22 October 2022 in the government of Giorgia Meloni.
List of ministers of justice Kingdom of Italy Parties
Coalitions
Ministers Portrait Name(Born–Died) Term of office Party Government Took officeLeft officeTime in officeMinister of Grace, Justice and Ecclesiastic AffairsGiovanni Battista Cassinis23 March 186112 June 1861 Historical RightCavour IVVincenzo Maria Miglietti12 June 1861 3 March 1862 Historical RightRicasoli IMinister of Grace, Justice and WorshipsFilippo Cordova3 March 18627 April 1862 Historical RightRattazzi IRaffaele Conforti7 April 18628 December 1862 Historical Left Giuseppe Pisanelli8 December 186228 September 1864 Historical LeftFariniMinghetti IGiuseppe Vacca28 September 186410 August 1865 Historical RightLa Marmora II Paolo Cortese10 August 186531 December 1865 Historical Right Giovanni De Falco31 December 186520 June 1866 Historical RightLa Marmora III Francesco Borgatti20 June 188617 February 1867 Historical RightRicasoli II Bettino Ricasoli17 February 186724 March 1867 Historical RightFilippo Cordova24 March 186710 April 1867 Historical Right Sebastiano Tecchio10 April 186727 October 1867 Historical LeftRattazzi II Adriano Mari27 October 18675 January 1868 Historical RightMenabrea I Gennaro De Filippo5 January 186825 May 1869 Historical RightMenabrea II·III Michele Pironti25 May 186922 October 1869 Historical Right Paolo Onorato Vigliani22 October 186914 December 1869 Historical RightMenabrea III Matteo Raeli14 December 186924 February 1871 Historical RightLanza Giovanni De Falco24 February 187110 July 1873 Historical Right Paolo Onorato Vigliani10 July 187325 March 1876 Historical RightMinghetti II Pasquale Stanislao Mancini25 March 187624 March 1878 Historical LeftDepretis I·IIRaffaele Conforti24 March 187819 December 1878 Historical LeftCairoli I Diego Tajani19 December 187814 July 1879 Historical LeftDepretis III Giovanni Battista Varè14 July 187925 November 1879 Historical LeftCairoli II Tommaso Villa25 November 187929 May 1881 Historical LeftCairoli III Giuseppe Zanardelli29 May 188125 May 1883 Historical LeftDepretis IV Bernardino Giannuzzi-Savelli25 May 188330 May 1884 Historical LeftDepretis V Niccolò Ferracciu30 May 188424 November 1884 Historical LeftDepretis VI Enrico Pessina24 November 188429 June 1885 Historical Left Diego Tajani29 June 18854 April 1887 Historical LeftDepretis VII Giuseppe Zanardelli4 April 18876 February 1891 Historical LeftDepretis VIIICrispi I·II Luigi Ferraris6 February 189131 December 1891 Historical RightDi Rudinì I Bruno Chimirri31 December 189115 May 1892 Historical Right Teodorico Bonacci15 May 189224 May 1893 Historical LeftGiolitti I Lorenzo Eula24 May 18938 July 1893 Historical Left Francesco Santamaria-Nicolini8 July 189327 September 1893 Historical Left Giacomo Armò27 September 189315 December 1893 Historical Left Vincenzo Calenda di Tavani15 December 189310 March 1896 Historical LeftCrispi III·IV Giacomo Giuseppe Costa10 March 189615 August 1897 Historical RightDi Rudinì II·III Antonio Starabba di Rudinì15 August 189718 September 1897 Historical RightDi Rudinì III Emanuele Gianturco18 September 189714 December 1897 Historical Right Giuseppe Zanardelli14 December 18971 June 1898 Historical LeftDi Rudinì IV Teodorico Bonacci1 June 189829 June 1898 Historical LeftRudinì V Camillo Finocchiaro Aprile29 June 189814 May 1899 Historical LeftPelloux I Adeodato Bonasi14 May 189924 June 1900 Historical RightPelloux II Emanuele Gianturco24 June 190015 February 1901 Historical RightSaracco Francesco Cocco-Ortu15 February 19013 November 1903 Historical LeftZanardelli Scipione Ronchetti3 November 190328 March 1905 Historical LeftGiolitti IITittoni Camillo Finocchiaro Aprile28 March 19058 February 1906 Historical LeftFortis I·II Ettore Sacchi8 February 190629 May 1906 Italian Radical PartySonnino I Nicolò Gallo29 May 19064 March 1907 Historical LeftGiolitti III Vittorio Emanuele Orlando4 March 190711 December 1909 Historical Left Vittorio Scialoja11 December 190931 March 1910 Historical RightSonnino II Cesare Fani31 March 191030 March 1911 Historical RightLuzzatti Camillo Finocchiaro Aprile30 March 191121 March 1914 Liberal PartyGiolitti IV Luigi Dari21 March 191431 October 1914 Liberal PartySalandra I Vittorio Emanuele Orlando31 October 191418 June 1916 Liberal PartySalandra II Ettore Sacchi18 June 191618 January 1919 Italian Radical PartyBoselliOrlando Luigi Facta18 January 191923 June 1919 Liberal PartyOrlando Lodovico Mortara23 June 191921 May 1920 IndependentNitti IMinister of Justice and Worship Affairs Alfredo Falcioni21 May 192019 June 1920 Democratic Liberal PartyNitti II Luigi Fera19 June 19204 July 1921 Italian Social Democratic PartyGiolitti VGiulio Rodinò(1875–1946)4 July 192126 February 1922Italian People's PartyBonomi I Luigi Rossi26 February 19221 August 1922 Democratic Liberal PartyFacta I Giulio Alessio1 August 192231 October 1922 Democratic Liberal PartyFacta II Aldo Oviglio31 October 19225 January 1925 National Fascist PartyMussolini Alfredo Rocco5 January 192520 July 1932 National Fascist PartyMinister of Grace and Justice Pietro De Francisci20 July 193224 January 1935 National Fascist PartyMussolini Arrigo Solmi24 January 193512 July 1939 National Fascist Party Dino Grandi12 July 19395 February 1943 National Fascist Party Alfredo De Marsico5 February 194325 July 1943 National Fascist Party Gaetano Azzariti25 July 194315 February 1944 IndependentBadoglio I Ettore Casati15 February 194424 April 1944 Independent Vincenzo Arangio-Ruiz24 April 194418 June 1944 Italian Liberal PartyBadoglio II Umberto Tupini18 June 194421 June 1945 Christian DemocracyBonomi II·III Palmiro Togliatti21 June 194513 July 1946 Italian Communist PartyParriDe Gasperi I
Italian Republic Parties 1946–1994:
1994–present:
Coalitions
Ministers Portrait Name(Born–Died) Term of office Party Government Took officeLeft officeTime in officeMinister of Grace and Justice Fausto Gullo 13 July 1946 31 May 1947 Italian Communist Party De Gasperi II·III Giuseppe Grassi 31 May 1947 27 January 1950 Italian Liberal Party De Gasperi IV·V Attilio Piccioni 27 January 1950 26 July 1951 Christian Democracy De Gasperi VI Adone Zoli 26 July 1951 16 July 1953 Christian Democracy De Gasperi VII Guido Gonella 16 July 1953 17 August 1953 Christian Democracy De Gasperi VIII Antonio Azara 17 August 1953 18 January 1954 Christian Democracy Pella Michele De Pietro 18 January 1954 6 July 1955 Christian Democracy Fanfani IScelba Aldo Moro 6 July 1955 19 May 1957 Christian Democracy Segni I Guido Gonella 19 May 1957 21 February 1962 Christian Democracy ZoliFanfani IISegni IITambroniFanfani III Giacinto Bosco 21 February 1962 4 December 1963 Christian Democracy Fanfani IVLeone I Oronzo Reale 4 December 1963 24 June 1968 Italian Republican Party Moro I·II·III Guido Gonella 24 June 1968 12 December 1968 Christian Democracy Leone II Silvio Gava12 December 1968 27 March 1970 Christian Democracy Leone IIRumor IRumor II Oronzo Reale 27 March 1970 1 March 1971 Italian Republican Party Rumor IIIColombo Emilio Colombo 1 March 1971 17 February 1972 Christian Democracy Colombo Guido Gonella 17 February 1972 7 July 1973 Christian Democracy Andreotti I·II Mario Zagari 7 July 1973 23 November 1974 Italian Socialist Party Rumor IV·V Oronzo Reale 23 November 1974 12 February 1976 Italian Republican Party Moro IV Francesco Paolo Bonifacio 12 February 1976 20 March 1979 Christian Democracy Moro VAndreotti III·IV Tommaso Morlino 20 March 1979 18 October 1980 Christian Democracy Andreotti VCossiga ICossiga II Adolfo Sarti 18 October 1980 23 May 1981 Christian DemocracyForlani Clelio Darida 23 May 1981 4 August 1983 Christian Democracy ForlaniSpadolini I·IIFanfani V Mino Martinazzoli 4 August 1983 1 August 1986 Christian Democracy Craxi I Virginio Rognoni 1 August 1986 29 July 1987 Christian Democracy Craxi IIFanfani VI Giuliano Vassalli 29 July 1987 2 February 1991 Italian Socialist Party GoriaDe MitaAndreotti VI Claudio Martelli 2 February 1991 28 April 1993 Italian Socialist Party Andreotti VI·VIIAmato I Giovanni Conso 28 April 1993 10 May 1994 Independent Amato ICiampi Alfredo Biondi 10 May 1994 17 January 1995 Forza Italia Berlusconi I Filippo Mancuso 17 January 1995 19 October 1995 Independent Dini Lamberto Dini 19 October 1995 16 February 1996 Independent Vincenzo Caianiello 16 February 1996 17 May 1996 Independent Giovanni Maria Flick 17 May 1996 21 October 1998 Independent Prodi I Oliviero Diliberto 21 October 1998 25 April 2000 Party of Italian Communists D'Alema I·IIMinister of Justice Piero Fassino 25 April 2000 11 June 2001 Democrats of the Left Amato II Roberto Castelli 11 June 2001 17 May 2006 Northern League Berlusconi II·III Clemente Mastella 17 May 2006 17 January 2008 Union of Democrats for Europe Prodi II Romano Prodi 17 January 2008 6 February 2008 Democratic Party Luigi Scotti 6 February 2008 8 May 2008 Independent Angelino Alfano 8 May 2008 28 July 2011 The People of Freedom Berlusconi IV Nitto Francesco Palma 28 July 2011 16 November 2011 The People of Freedom Paola Severino 16 November 2011 28 April 2013 Independent Monti Annamaria Cancellieri 28 April 2013 22 February 2014 Independent Letta Andrea Orlando 22 February 2014 1 June 2018 Democratic Party RenziGentiloni Alfonso Bonafede 1 June 2018 13 February 2021 Five Star Movement Conte I·II Marta Cartabia 13 February 2021 22 October 2022 Independent Draghi Carlo Nordio 22 October 2022 Incumbent Brothers of ItalyMeloni
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See also
Keeper of the seals
References
External links Ministry of Justice Ministry of Justice (Archive)