Dineke de Groot
Dineke de Groot | |
|---|---|
| President of the Supreme Court | |
| Assumed office 1 November 2020 | |
| Monarch | Willem-Alexander |
| Prime Minister | Mark Rutte Dick Schoof |
| Preceded by | Maarten Feteris |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 11 July 1965 Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Dineke de Groot is the president of the Supreme Court of Netherlands since November 2020 and the first woman to serve in the capacity.[1]
She became a justice of the Supreme Court under the civil and tax law since 2012. She joined the judiciary in 1990 after judiciary training and was moved to the Amsterdam District Court in 1996. She was a member of the Arnhem Court of Appeal in 2009 and as counsel until she was made the vice president of the Supreme Court in January 2018. Although, she was an extraordinary professor of jurisprudence and conflict resolution in the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam during 2011.[2]
She holds a bachelor's degree of law in Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and also for arts in the Vienna University.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "New First President of the Supreme Court of Cassation of Netherlands". Archived from the original on 2020-12-30. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- ^ "NL Biography". network.presidents.eu. Archived from the original on 2020-09-28. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- ^ "'There is value in resistance'". VU Magazine. Retrieved 2021-09-10.