Forty-three years in the judiciary, "always understood as service", he specifies . At 22, he graduated in Law, two years later, at 24, he won eighteenth place out of 195 winners in the national competition for the judiciary.
A long list of sentences written first as a labor judge and then as an Assize Court judge before arriving at the Attorney General's Office of the Court of Appeal.
In 2017, the Superior Council of the Judiciary decided to transfer her to the Public Prosecutor's Office of Cagliari with the role of district anti-mafia and anti-terrorism prosecutor, with jurisdiction over the entire Sardinian territory: at the time of her appointment, she was the only woman with a role of this type, competent for the entire region on all organized crime and terrorism offences.
Maria Alessandra Pelagatti is the Sardinian Woman 2025, awarded by the Lions Club Cagliari Lioness in the Municipal Council Hall of Palazzo Bacaredda in Cagliari .
The plaque was presented by the Councilor for Culture Maria Francesca Chiappe, the President of the City Council Marco Benucci and the President of Lioness, Mariella Piras Mantovani.
The motivation recalls that path, professional but also human: "For the commitment dedicated to protecting legality". Accompanying it is a famous phrase by Winston Churchill: "Laws are the roots of our civil coexistence".
Doing the honors, Marco Benucci thanked Pelagatti for what he did for Cagliari, for Sardinia and for the Republic.
On this day, dedicated to women's rights, Pelagatti wanted to remember two key figures in her journey: «Maria Cocco, Sardinian MP, first signatory of the 1963 law for the entry of women into the judiciary, and my father who first suggested to me, right after the approval of that law, that I study law at a time in history when law studies were not given much consideration».
A look to the past, but always with a thought to the future: as when, as soon as she took office at the Cagliari Prosecutor's Office, she worked on the six-monthly inclusion of young graduates in legal and economic subjects, thus promoting their educational enrichment as interns, and established a new way of relating to the press, to combine the protection of investigative secrecy with the right to information.
