Danutė Jočienė

Danutė completed her primary education at an eight-year school in Tučiai in 1986.She then attended Viekšniai Secondary School, graduating in 1989. In 1994, she graduated with honors from the Faculty of Law at Vilnius University. After five years, she defended her doctoral thesis at the same university. From 1994 to 2003, she served as a lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Vilnius University. Since 2014, she has been a professor at the Mykolas Romeris University Law School. == Career ==

From 1994 to 2003, Jočienė served as an assistant, associate professor, and vice dean at the Faculty of Law, Vilnius University. During this period, she also worked as an expert at the Department of European Law under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania from 1997 to 2001. In 2003, she was appointed as the Agent of the Government before the European Court of Human Rights, a role she held until 2004. That same year, she was elected as a judge of the European Court of Human Rights, becoming the youngest judge in the Court's history at the age of 34. She served on the Court until 2013. In 2014, Jočienė was appointed to the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania. She became the first woman to chair the Constitutional Court in June 2021. Throughout her career, Jočienė has been actively involved in human rights initiatives, including contributing to the preparation of the Reform Protocol No. 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights. She has also collaborated with the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe and participated in various programs aimed at promoting human rights and legal education. ==See also==