Soviet era From 1964 to 1965 he was a worker in the regional road department of Floresti. Then, until 1967, Timofti worked as a mechanic and motorist. After graduation, Timofti spent two years in the
Soviet Army before beginning his career as a judge in 1976, when he worked as a consultant at the Ministry of Justice of the Moldavian SSR. For ten years from 1980 to 1990, he was a judge of the Supreme Court of the Moldavian SSR. In April 2013, it was found out, that he was the judge who in January 1987 found the pro-Romanian dissident Gheorghe David guilty of "systematic propaganda, in writing and orally, of ideas of a nationalist character, aiming to provoke national enmity towards persons of Russian nationality, to discredit the national Leninist policy of the CPSU", In an open letter published on 16 April of that year, Timofti said "that he regrets that he was put in a situation to apply an inhumane law and explained that, as a judge, he was obliged to apply the law."
After independence "He is a person who was with us when we started reforms in the 1990s,"
Mihai Ghimpu said. In 2005, Timofti was appointed to the Higher Judicial Chamber and, in 2011, he was named chairman of the Supreme Council of Magistrates. ==President of Moldova==