Federal Court of Justice

President Bettina Limperg

April 2021 - November 2023President 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