Der Bundesgerichtshof

President Bettina Limperg

since April 2021President of the Network of the Presidents of the Supreme Courts of the European Union

Bettina Limperg, President of the German Federal Court of Justice - Photo: Anja Koehler

since July 2014President of the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof)
since 2013Member of the Board of the non-governmental organization “Projekt Chance”, an organisation that endorses the rehabilitation of juveniles and adolescents
2011 - 2014Head of the Ministry of Justice of Baden-Wuerttemberg and Deputy Minister
till 2011Member of the Board of the association of Judges and Prosecutors in Baden-Wuerttemberg
2009 - 2011Vice-President of the Regional Court (Landgericht) of Stuttgart
2004 - 2009Director of the Local Court (Amtsgericht) of Waiblingen
2001 - 2004Judge at the Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht) of Stuttgart, also Judge in the President’s Office
1996 - 2001Judge in the criminal law section of the Regional Court (Landgericht) of Stuttgart, also Judge in the President’s Office
1994 - 1995Research Assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht)
1991 - 1994Judge in the criminal law section of the Regional Court (Landgericht) of Stuttgart
1990 - 1991Judge in the civil law section of the Local Court (Amtsgericht) of Stuttgart
1989 - 1990 Prosecutor at 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
1984First German State Examination in Law at Freiburg
1979 - 1984 Legal studies at the Universities of Freiburg and Tübingen
1979 A-levels (Abitur), Wuppertal
April 5, 1960Born in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, North Rhine-Westphalia