Julia Przyłębska
Julia Anna Przyłębska | |
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| President of the Constitutional Tribunal | |
| Assumed office 20 December 2016 Acting until 21 December 2016 | |
| Nominated by | Andrzej Duda |
| Preceded by | Andrzej Rzepliński |
| Judge of the Constitutional Tribunal of the Republic of Poland | |
| Assumed office 9 December 2015 | |
| Nominated by | Andrzej Duda |
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| Born | Julia Anna Żmudzińska 16 November 1959 Bydgoszcz, Poland |
| Alma mater | University of Poznań |
Julia Anna Przyłębska (born Julia Anna Żmudzińska 16 November 1959) is a Polish lawyer and judge, and the current President of the Constitutional Tribunal of the Republic of Poland since December 2016.
Biography
In 1982 she graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań. During her studies she was a member of the Independent Students’ Association.
From 1984 to 1998 she was a judge trainee and an associate judge at the Regional Court in Poznań. From 1988 to 1991 she served as a judge at a District Court in Poznań, in the Civil Department.
From 1991 to 1998 she served as a delegated judge, then as a judge at the Regional Court in Poznań in the Social Insurances Department. From 1990 to 1992 she was the Head of Employees’ Council at the Regional Court in Poznań. From 1990 to 1997 she was a member and the deputy chairman of the Regional Electoral Commission in Poznań.
From 1998 to 2007, having resigned from the bench, she served in diplomacy as a consul and diplomat – counselor of the embassy at the Polish Embassy in Cologne and Berlin. As a representative of the Polish Embassy she was a member of the negotiating team handling compensation for forced labour. She was responsible for cooperation of the Public Interest Commissioner with the Stasi Records Agency – she established contact between these bodies and later she coordinated cooperation with the Institute of National Remembrance. She was a member of the Division for Acquisition of Information at the Archive in Arolsen. In 2006 she was responsible for the restoration of a real estate in Berlin, which the Polish government purchased in 1939 to build there the Polish Institute. She prepared legal analyses for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs concerning national and international law. From 2005 to 2007 she coordinated talks concerning compensations for victims of Nazi crimes and granting the Polish diaspora, Polonia, minority status in (Germany).
She received a medal from the Association of Jewish Veterans and Victims of the Second World War.
In 2007 she resumed her service as a judge at the Regional Court in Poznań in the VIII Social Security Department. Since 2009 she was the deputy chairwoman of the Department and since 1 July 2015 she was the chairwoman of the Labour Law and Social Security Department.
She participated in European internships and conferences on national and European law.
In December 2015, with the recommendation of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, she was elected as a member of the Constitutional Tribunal of the Republic of Poland. On 21 December 2016, the President of the Republic of Poland appointed her the President of the Constitutional Tribunal.
See also
References
External links
- Constitutional Tribunal of the Republic of Poland official website (English version)
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