List of Members of the European Court of Justice
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The following is a list of all past and present members of the European Court of Justice
European Court of Justice
The Court can sit in plenary session, as a Grand Chamber of 13 judges, or in chambers of three or five judges. Plenary sitting are now very rare, and the court mostly sits in chambers of three or five judges...

in the official order of precedence:

As of October 6, 2011:

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!Year!!State!!Members of the European Court of Justice!!President!!Judge!!Adv. General
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|1952–1958 ||   || Massimo Pilotti
Massimo Pilotti
Massimo Pilotti was an Italian jurist and judge. Pilotti was the first President of the European Court of Justice at Luxembourg....

 ||1952–1958 || ||
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|1952–1958 ||   || Petrus Serrarens || ||1952–1958 ||
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|1952–1963 ||   || Otto Riese || ||1952–1963 ||
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|1952–1967 ||   || Louis Delvaux || ||1952–1967 ||
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|1952–1962 ||   || Jacques Rueff
Jacques Rueff
Jacques Rueff was a French economist and adviser to the French Government.An influential French conservative and free market thinker, Rueff was born the son of a well known Parisian physician and studied economics and mathematics at the École Polytechnique...

 || ||1952–1962 ||
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|1952–1967 ||   || Charles Léon Hammes
Charles Léon Hammes
Charles Léon Hammes was a Luxembourgian lawyer, judge and the third President of the European Court of Justice.Hammes was born in 1898 in Falk, Luxembourg...

 ||1964–1967 || 1952–1964 ||
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|1952–1958 ||   || Adrianus van Kleffens || ||1952–1958 ||
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|1952–1964 ||   || Maurice Lagrange || || ||1952–1964
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|1953–1973 ||   || Karl Roemer || || ||1953–1973
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|1958–1964 ||   || Rino Rossi
Rino Rossi
Rino Rossi was born in Chivenna on 14 August 1889 and was an Italian national. He became Pretore in Caraglio in 1920, and for Turin in 1924. In 1928 he was appointed as President of the District Court of Rhodes, and then in 1934 he was appointed to the District Court in Rome...

 || ||1958–1964 ||
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|1958–1979 ||   || Andreas Matthias Donner
Andreas Matthias Donner
Andreas Matthias Donner was a Dutch judge and the second President of the European Court of Justice, a position which he served between 1958 and 1964. Donner stems from a prominent Dutch Reformed family of jurists...

 ||1958–1964|| 1964–1979 ||
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|1958–1961 ||   || Nicola Catalano || || 1958–1961 ||
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|1962–1976 ||   || Alberto Trabucchi || ||1962–1972 ||1973–1976
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|1962–1976 ||   || Robert Lecourt
Robert Lecourt
Robert Lecourt was a French politician and lawyer, judge and the fourth President of the European Court of Justice.Lecourt was born in Pavilly, Seine-Maritime...

 ||1967–1976 ||1962–1967 ||
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|1963–1970 ||   || Walter Strauss || || 1963–1970 ||
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|1964–1976 ||   || Riccardo Monaco || || 1964–1976 ||
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|1964–1970 ||   || Joseph Gand || || ||1964–1970
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|1967–1984 ||   || Josse Mertens de Wilmars
Josse Mertens de Wilmars
Baron Joseph Marie Honoré Charles Mertens de Wilmars was a Belgian jurist who became a member of the European Court of Justice and then its sixth President....

 ||1980–1984 || 1967–1980 ||
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|1967–1985 ||   || Pierre Pescatore || || 1967–1985 ||
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|1970–1980 ||   || Hans Kutscher
Hans Kutscher
Hans Kutscher was a member of the first and second Senate of the German Constitutional Court and later a member and then President of the European Court of Justice....

 ||1976–1980 || 1970–1976 ||
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|1970–1972 ||   || Alain Louis Dutheillet de Lamothe || || ||1970–1972
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|1972–1981 ||   || Henri Mayras || || ||1972–1981
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|1973–1974 ||   || Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh served as the fifth President of Ireland, from 1974 to 1976. He resigned in 1976 after a clash with the government. He also had a notable legal career, including serving as Chief Justice of Ireland.- Early life :Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, one of four children, was born on 12 February...

 || || 1973–1974 ||
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|1973–1979 ||   || Max Søorensen || ||1973–1979 ||
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|1973–1988 ||   || Alexander Mackenzie Stuart ||1984–1988 || 1973–1984 ||
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|1973–1981 ||   || Jean-Pierre Warner
Jean-Pierre Warner
Sir Jean-Pierre Frank Eugene Warner QC GCOM was a jurist who served as the first British Advocate-General of the European Court of Justice after Britain's entry into the European Community in 1972...

 || || ||1973–1981
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|1973–1981 ||   || Gerhard Reischl || || ||1973–1981
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|1975–1985 ||   || Aindrias Ó Caoimh
Aindrias Ó Caoimh (Attorney General)
Aindrias Ó Caoimh , also known as Andreas O'Keeffe and Ayindries Ó Cuiv, was Attorney General of Ireland from 30 January 1954 to 21 June 1954, and again from 20 March 1957 to 15 March 1965. For the time between his terms, the position was held by Patrick McGilligan. He was President of the High...

 || ||1975–1985 ||
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|1976–1982 ||   || Francesco Capotorti || ||1976–1976 ||1976–1982
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|1976–1988 ||   || Giacinto Bosco || ||1976–1988 ||
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|1976–1982 ||   || Adolphe Touffait || ||1976–1982 ||
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|1979–1990 ||   || Thymen Koopmans || ||1979–1990 ||
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|1979–1994 ||   || Ole Due
Ole Due
Ole Due , was a Danish judge and the President of the European Court of Justice.Ole Due was born on 10 February 1931 in Denmark. He had a successful career at the Danish Ministry of Justice, culminating in his appointment as Director...

 ||1988–1994 ||1979–1988 ||
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|1980–1988 ||   || Ulrich Everling || ||1980–1988 ||
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|1981–1982 ||   || Alexandros Chloros || ||1981–1982 ||
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|1981–1992 ||   || Gordon Slynn
Gordon Slynn, Baron Slynn of Hadley
Gordon Slynn, Baron Slynn of Hadley, GBE, PC, QC was a British jurist specialising in European and International Law, and a former judge of the European Court of Justice and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.-Early life:...

 || ||1988–1992 ||1981–1988
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|1981–1984 ||   || Simone Rozès || || ||1981–1984
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|1981–1986 ||   || Pieter Verloren van Themaat || || ||1981–1986
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|1981–1982
1988–1994 ||   || Fernand Grévisse || ||1981–1982
1988–1994
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|1982–1988 ||   || Kai Bahlmann || ||1982–1988||
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|1982–1999 ||   || G. Federico Mancini || ||1988–1999||1982–1988
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|1982–1988 ||   || Yves Galmot || || 1982–1988||
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|1983–1997 ||   || Constantinos Kakouris || || 1983–1997 ||
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|1984–1997 ||   || Carl Otto Lenz
Carl Otto Lenz
Carl Otto Lenz is a German lawyer, member of the German Bundestag for the CDU and Advocate General at the European Court of Justice .- Biography :...

 || || ||1984–1997
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|1984–1994 ||   || Marco Darmon || || ||1984–1994
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|1984–1995 ||   || René Joliet || ||1984–1995 ||
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|1985–1991 ||   || Thomas Francis O'Higgins
Tom O'Higgins
Thomas Francis O'Higgins was an Irish Fine Gael politician, a barrister and a judge.Tom O'Higgins was born in Cork in 1916. He was the son of Thomas F. O'Higgins and the nephew of Kevin O'Higgins...

 || ||1985–1991 ||
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|1985–1996 ||   || Fernand Schockweiler || ||1985–1996 ||
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|1986–1991
1997–2003 ||   || Jean Mischo
Jean Mischo
Jean Mischo , was an Advocate General of the European Court of Justice.Jean Mischo studied law and political sciences at the universities of Montpellier, Paris and Cambridge...

 || || ||1986–1991
1997–2003
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|1986–2000 ||   || José Carlos de Carvalho Moitinho de Almeida || ||1986–2000 ||
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|1986–1988 ||   || José Luis Da Cruz Vilaça || || ||1986–1988
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|1986–2003 ||   || Gil Carlos Rodriguez Iglesias
Gil Carlos Rodriguez Iglesias
Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias is a former Spanish judge at the European Court of Justice . He was 9th President of the Court from 7 October 1994 to 7 October 2003....

 ||1994–2003 ||1986–1994 ||
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|1988–1994 ||   || Manuel Diez de Velasco || ||1988–1994 ||
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|1988–1994 ||   || Manfred Zuleeg || ||1988–1994 ||
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|1988–1994 ||   || Walter van Gerven || || ||1988–1994
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|1988–2006 ||   || Francis G. Jacobs
Francis Geoffrey Jacobs
Sir Francis Geoffrey Jacobs, KCMG, QC , is a British jurist who served as Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Communities from October 1988 to January 2006. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and Nuffield College, Oxford and practised as a barrister from Fountain Court...

 || || ||1988–2006
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|1988–1998 ||   || Giuseppe Tesauro || || ||1988–1998
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|1990–2000 ||   || Paul Joan George Kapteyn || ||1990–2000 ||
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|1991–2006 ||   || Claus Christian Gulmann
Claus Christian Gulmann
Claus Christian Gulmann is a Danish judge, Advocate General and Judge at the European Court of Justice.He has held the following positions:*Official at the Ministry of Justice*Legal Secretary to Judge Max Sørensen...

 || ||1994–2006 ||1991–1994
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|1991–1999 ||   || John L. Murray
John L. Murray
John Loyola Murray is an Irish judge and served as the Chief Justice of Ireland from 2004 to 2011.Murray was born in Limerick in 1943 and educated at Crescent College, Limerick, Rockwell College, County Tipperary, University College Dublin, and the Honorable Society of King's Inns. He was...

 || ||1991–1999 ||
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|1992–2004 ||   || David Edward || ||1992–2004 ||
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|1994–2006 ||   || Antonio Mario La Pergola
Antonio Mario La Pergola
Antonio Mario La Pergola , Italian jurist, Advocate General and later Judge of the European Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg, President of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.Antonio La Pergola always used his legal expertise, and the experience he has...

 || || 1994–1994
1999–2006 || 1995–1999
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|1994–2000 ||   || Georges Cosmas || || ||1994–2000
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|1994–2000 ||   || Günter Hirsch
Günter Hirsch
Günter Hirsch is a German legal scholar and a former president of the Federal Court of Justice of Germany.-Biography:Günter Erhard Hirsch was born in Neuburg an der Donau, the second child of Erhard and Anni Hirsch. After primary school, he attended gymnasium in Neuburg, graduating with his abitur...

 || ||1994–2000 ||
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|1994–1997 ||   || Michael Bendik Elmer || || ||1994–1997
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|1994–2006 ||   || Jean-Pierre Puissochet || ||1994–2006 ||
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|1994–2006 ||   || Philippe Léger || || ||1994–2006
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|1995–2000 ||   || Hans Ragnemalm
Hans Ragnemalm
Hans Olof Ragnemalm is a Swedish lawyer, judge and professor emeritus of Public Law.Ragnemalm became Professor of Public Law at Lund University, and later Professor of Public Law and Dean of the Law Faculty at the University of Stockholm...

 || ||1995–2000 ||
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|1995–2002 ||   || Leif Sevón
Leif Sevón
Leif Sevón is a Finnish jurist and judge.Sevón holds a Doctor of Law degree from the University of Helsinki. His positions include a directorate at the Ministry of Justice, the presidency of the EFTA Court, a seat in the European Court of Justice, and an advisory position at the Ministry of...

 || ||1995–2002 ||
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|1995–2000 ||   || Nial Fennelly
Nial Fennelly
Nial Fennelly has served as a judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland since 2000 and was an Advocate General of the European Court of Justice from 1995 to 2000. He was educated at Clongowes Wood College, took a degree in economics at University College Dublin and completed his Bar studies at King's...

 || || ||1995–2000
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|1995–2003 ||   || Melchior Wathelet
Melchior Wathelet
Melchior H.M.J.F.C. Wathelet is a Belgian politician and member of the Humanist Democratic Centre. He has degrees in law and in economics and is a Master of Laws . He's also a professor at the Catholic University of Louvain and the Université de Liège...

 || ||1995–2003 ||
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|1995–2009 ||   || Peter Jann
Peter Jann
Peter Jann is an Austrian jurist and was a judge at the European Court of Justice from 19 January 1995 until 7 October 2009.-References:...

 || ||1995–2009||
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|1995–2009 ||   || Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer
Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer
Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer was a Spanish jurist, judge at the Consejo General del Poder Judicial and the head of the Private Office of the President of the Consejo General del Poder Judicial...

|| || ||1995–2009
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|1996–2007 ||   || Romain Schintgen || ||1996–2008 ||
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|1997–1999 ||   || Krateros Ioannou || ||1997–1999 ||
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|1997–2003 ||   || Siegbert Alber || || ||1997–2003
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|1998–2000 ||   || Antonio Saggio || || ||1998–2000
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|1999–present ||   || Vassilios Skouris
Vassilios Skouris
Vassilios Skouris is a Greek judge who has been President of the European Court of Justice since 2003. A European legal scholar, he served briefly in the government of Greece as Minister of the Interior in 1989 and again in 1996....

 ||2003–present ||1999–2003 ||
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|1999–2004 ||   || Fidelma O’Kelly Macken
Fidelma Macken
Fidelma O'Kelly Macken is a judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland since 2005. She was appointed a High Court judge in 1998. She succeeded John L. Murray, Chief Justice since July 2004, as Ireland's appointee on the European Court of Justice from 5 October 1999 to 22 September 2004...

 || ||1999–2004 ||
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|2000–2006 ||   || Ninon Colneric
Ninon Colneric
Ninon Colneric is a German former judge at the European Court of Justice.She studied in Tübingen, Munich and Geneva. Following a period of academic research in London, she was awarded a doctorate in law by the University of Munich. She was authorised, by the University of Bremen, to teach labour...

 || ||2000–2006 ||
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|2000–2006 ||   || Stig von Bahr
Stig von Bahr
Stig von Bahr is a Swedish jurist and former judge at the European Court of Justice.Stig von Bahr has worked with the Justitieombudsman and in the Swedish Cabinet Office and the Ministries inter alia as assistant under-secretary in the Ministry of Finance...

 || ||2000–2006 ||
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|2000–present ||   || Antonio Tizzano
Antonio Tizzano
Antonio Tizzano is a judge of the European Court of Justice.He was the Advocate General at the European Court of Justice from 7 October 2000 to 3 May 2006; he has been a Judge at the European Court of Justice since 4 May 2006...

|| ||2006–present || 2000–2006
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|2000–present ||   || José Narciso da Cunha Rodrigues
José Narciso da Cunha Rodrigues
José Narciso da Cunha Rodrigues is a Portuguese jurist and judge at the European Court of Justice.He held various offices within the judiciary between 1964 & 1977, including Government assignments to carry out and coordinate studies on reform of the judicial system...

 || ||2000–present ||
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|2000–2010 ||   || Christiaan Willem Anton Timmermans || ||2000–2010 ||
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|2000–2006 ||   || Leendert A. Geelhoed|| || ||2000–2006
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|2000–2006 ||   || Christine Stix-Hackl
Christine Stix-Hackl
Christine Stix-Hackl , Austrian jurist, Advocate General at the European Court of Justice from 2000 to 2006. Since August 2007 Austrian Ambassador in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.- Biography :...

|| || ||2000–2006
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|2002–present ||   || Allan Rosas
Allan Rosas
Allan Rosas is a Finnish jurist and judge. He is a judge of the European Court of Justice.Doctor of Laws of the University of Turku ; Professor of Law at the University of Turku and at the Åbo Akademi University ; Director of the latter’s Institute for Human Rights ; various international and...

 || ||2002–present ||
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|2003–present ||   || Rosario Silva de Lapuerta
Rosario Silva de Lapuerta
Rosario Silva de Lapuerta is a Spanish jurist and judge at the European Court of Justice since 7 October 2003.-References:...

 || ||2003–present ||
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|2003–present ||   || Vassilios Skouris
Vassilios Skouris
Vassilios Skouris is a Greek judge who has been President of the European Court of Justice since 2003. A European legal scholar, he served briefly in the government of Greece as Minister of the Interior in 1989 and again in 1996....

 || ||2003–present ||
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|2003–present ||   || Koen Lenaerts
Koen Lenaerts
Koen Lenaerts is a Belgian Professor of European Law at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a Judge of the European Court of Justice. He was a member of the Coudenberg group, a Belgian federalist think tank.-Education:...

 || ||2003–present ||
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|2003–present ||   || Juliane Kokott
Juliane Kokott
Juliane Kokott is the German Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union and Professor at the University of St. Gallen.- Biography :Juliane Kokott studied law in Bonn and Geneva...

|| || ||2003–present
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|2003–2009 ||   || Luís Miguel Poiares Pessoa Maduro|| || ||2003–2009
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|2004–present ||   || Konrad Hermann Theodor Schiemann || ||2004–present ||
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|2004–2009 ||   || Jerzy Makarczyk
Jerzy Makarczyk
Jerzy Makarczyk is a Polish lawyer.Makarczyk represented Poland in the European Court of Human Rights . He was appointed as a judge from Poland to the European Court of Justice on 11 May 2004 and served until 2009.-References:...

 || ||2004–2009||
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|2004–2010 ||   || Pranas Kūris
Pranas Kuris
Pranas Kūris is a Lithuanian lawyer. He is the first representative of Lithuania in the European Court of Justice and European Court of Human Rights....

 || ||2004–2010||
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|2004–present ||   || Endre Juhász || ||2004–present||
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|2004–present ||   || George Arestis || ||2004–present||
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|2004–present ||   || Anthony Borg Barthet
Anthony Borg Barthet
Anthony Borg Barthet is a Maltese European Court of Justice, and former Attorney General of Malta.-Biography:Born 25 March 1947 in Valletta, Malta to Victor Borg and Mary BarthetNephew of the famous Maltese Artist Esprit Barthet...

 || ||2004–present||
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|2004–present ||   || Marko Ilešič || ||2004–present||
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|2004–present || || Jiří Malenovský || ||2004–present||
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|2004–2009 ||   || Ján Klučka || ||2004–2009||
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|2004–present ||   || Uno Lõhmus || ||2004–present||
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|2004–present ||   || Egils Levits || ||2004–present||
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|2004–present ||   || Aindrias Ó Caoimh
Aindrias Ó Caoimh (barrister)
Aindrias Ó Caoimh is an Irish Judge of the European Court of Justice and immediately prior to this was a Judge of the High Court from 1999 to 2004...

 || ||2004–present||
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|2006–present ||   || Lars Bay Larsen || ||2006–present||
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|2006–present ||   || Eleanor Sharpston
Eleanor V.E. Sharpston
Eleanor V. E. Sharpston, QC Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union.The UK Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Communities since 10 January 2006, Eleanor Sharpston QC studied economics, languages and law at King’s College, Cambridge , followed by...

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|2006–present ||   || Paolo Mengozzi|| ||||2006–present
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|2006–present ||   || Pernilla Lindh || ||2006–2011||
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|2006–present ||   || Jean-Claude Bonichot || ||2006–present||
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|2006–present ||   || Thomas von Danwitz || ||2006–present||
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|2006–present ||   || Yves Bot
Yves Bot
Yves Bot is a French magistrate and currently serves as Advocate General at the European Court of Justice.In 1995, Yves Bot was nominated by Jacques Toubon as prosecutor of Nanterre, then minister of justice...

 || || ||2006–present
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|2006–present ||   || Ján Mazák || || ||2006–present
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|2006–present ||   || Verica Trstenjak
Verica Trstenjak
]Verica Trstenjak is Slovene Doctor of Laws, and since 2006, the Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg.- Early legal work :...

 || || ||2006–present
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|2007–present ||   || Alexander Arabadzhiev || ||2007–present ||
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|2007–present ||   || Camelia Toader || ||2007–present ||
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|2008–present ||   || Jean-Jacques Kasel || ||2008–present ||
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|2009–present ||   || Marek Safjan || ||2009–present ||
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|2009–present ||   || Daniel Šváby || ||2009–present ||
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|2009–present ||   || Maria Berger
Maria Berger
Maria Berger is an Austrian politician and currently Judge at the European Court of Justice. She was a member of the European Parliament and a Minister of Justice....

 || ||2009–present ||
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|2009–present ||   || Niilo Jääskinen
Niilo Jääskinen
Niilo Jääskinen is a Finnish lawyer and currently serves as Advocate General at the European Court of Justice.In 1990, Jääskinen was appointed as head of the European Law Section of the Ministry of Justice in Finland. In 1995 he was appointed as Advisor and Clerk for European affairs of the Grand...

 || || || 2009–present
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|2009–present ||   || Pedro Cruz Villalón || || || 2009–present
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|2010–present ||   || Alexandra Prechal || ||2010–present ||
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|2010–present ||   || Egidijus Jarašiūnas
Egidijus Jarašiunas
Egidijus Jarašiūnas is a Lithuanian lawyer, signatory of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania. He was a judge of the Constitutional Court of Lithuania from 1996 to 2005. Since 2007 he is a dean of Faculty of Law at Mykolas Romeris University.-References: . Seimas of the...

 || ||2010–present ||
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|2010–present ||   || Carl Gustav Fernlund || ||2011–present ||
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