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