Jasna Omejec
| Jasna Omejec | |
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| 4th President of the Constitutional Court of Croatia | |
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In office 12 June 2008 – 7 June 2016 |
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| Preceded by |
Petar Klarić (as President) Željko Potočnjak (Interim) |
| Succeeded by | Miroslav Šeparović |
| Justice of the Constitutional Court of Croatia | |
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In office 7 December 1999 – 7 June 2016 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
9 January 1962 Osijek, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia (now Croatia) |
| Political party | Liberal Party (before 1999) |
| Alma mater |
University of Osijek University of Zagreb |
Jasna Omejec (born 9 January 1962) is a Croatian jurist who served as the 4th President of the Constitutional Court of Croatia. She was the first woman to have held the position. Since 1990, Omjece is a professor at the Chair of Administrative Law of the Zagreb Faculty of Law.
Jasna Omejec was born on January 9, 1962 in Osijek where she finished elementary and high school. She graduated law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Osijek in 1985.
After graduation, Omejec started working as an assistant at the Department of Administrative Law of the Osijek Faculty of Law (1986-1990). In 1990 she transferred to the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb where she worked as a post-graduate lecturer in administrative law and political sciences, and had started her postgraduate studies. Omejec gained her PhD in Administrative Law in 1994. In year 1999, she was elected judge of the Constitutional Court of Croatia by the Croatian Parliament. Her election was supported by the Liberal Party, Croatian Peasant Party, Istrian Democratic Assembly and Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats. She served as a vice-president and deputy president of the Court. On June 12, 2008, Omejec was elected first woman president of the Constitutional Court. On June 12, 2012, Parliament elected her for the second term as judge of the Constitutional Court. She was also reelected as Court's president. During her term in office she administered the presidential oath of office to the 3rd President of Croatia Ivo Josipović on 18 February 2010 and the 4th President of Croatia Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović on 15 February 2015 (for a term beginning on 19 February 2015). The latter instance marked the first time that two women had taken part in the presidential inauguration ceremony.
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