Bundesgerichtshof (German Federal Court of Justice)
Bettina Limperg
President of the Federal Court of Justice
President since: 1 July 2014
Member of the Supreme Court since: 1 July 2014
Biography and career
Born on 5 April 1960 in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, North Rhine-Westphalia.
2013‒ Member of the Board of the non-governmental organization “Projekt Chance”, an organization that endorses the rehabilitation of juveniles and adolescents
2011‒2014 Head of the Ministry of Justice of Baden-Württemberg and Deputy Minister
until 2011 Member of the Board of the association of Judges and Prosecutors in Baden-Württemberg
2009‒2011 Vice-President of the Regional Court (Landgericht) of Stuttgart
2004‒2009 Director of the Local Court (Amtsgericht) of Waiblingen
2001‒2004 Judge at the Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht) of Stuttgart, also Judge in the President’s Office
1996‒2001 Judge in the criminal law section of the Regional Court (Landgericht) of Stuttgart, also Judge in the President’s Office
1994‒1995 Research Assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht)
1991‒1994 Judge in the criminal law section of the Regional Court (Landgericht) of Stuttgart
1990‒1991 Judge in the civil law section of the Local Court (Amtsgericht) of Stuttgart
1989‒1990 Prosecutor in the public prosecution department of Stuttgart
1988 Second German State Examination in Law at Stuttgart
1985‒1988 Judicial traineeship (Referendariat) at the Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht) of Karlsruhe; Research Assistant at the Institute for Public Law of the University of Freiburg
1984 First German State Examination in Law at Freiburg
1979‒1984 Legal studies at the Universities of Freiburg and Tübingen
1979 A-levels (Abitur), Wuppertal
