List of judges of the European Court of Human Rights

The European Court of Human Rights is an international tribunal established for enforcement of the European Convention on Human Rights. It is an organ of the Council of Europe and judges are elected to the Court by the Council's Parliamentary Assembly to represent each of the Member States. Judges of the Court as of 1 February 2011^[1] are, in order of precedence:

Name	Country	Position	Elected	Term Ends ^[2]
Jean-Paul Costa	France	President	1998	02011-11-03 3 November 2011
Sir Nicolas Bratza	United Kingdom	Vice-President	1998	02012-10-31 31 October 2012
Françoise Tulkens	Belgium	Vice-President	1998	02012-09-12 12 September 2012
Josep Casadevall	Andorra	Section President	1998	02015-10-31 31 October 2015
Nina Vajić	Croatia	Section President	1998	02012-10-31 31 October 2012
Dean Spielmann	Luxembourg	Section President	2004	02015-10-31 31 October 2015
Christos Rozakis	Greece	Judge	1998	02011-05-17 17 May 2011
Corneliu Bîrsan	Romania	Judge	1998	02013-12-16 16 December 2013
Peer Lorenzen	Denmark	Judge	1998	02014-05-20 20 May 2014
Karel Jungwiert	Czech Republic	Judge	1998	02012-10-31 31 October 2012
Boštjan Zupančič	Slovenia	Judge	1998	02015-10-31 31 October 2015
Anatoly Kovler	Russia	Judge	1999	02012-10-31 31 October 2012
Elisabeth Steiner	Austria	Judge	2001	02015-10-31 31 October 2015
Lech Garlicki	Poland	Judge	2002	02012-10-31 31 October 2012
Elisabet Fura	Sweden	Judge	2003	02012-10-31 31 October 2012
Alvina Gyulumyan	Armenia	Judge	2003	02015-10-31 31 October 2015
Khanlar Hajiyev	Azerbaijan	Judge	2004	02015-10-31 31 October 2015
Ljiljana Mijović	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Judge	2004	02013-05-18 18 May 2013
Egbert Myjer	Netherlands	Judge	2004	02013-10-31 31 October 2013
Sverre Erik Jebens	Norway	Judge	2004	02011-08-31 31 August 2011
David Björgvinsson	Iceland	Judge	2004	02013-10-31 31 October 2013
Danutė Jočienė	Lithuania	Judge	2004	02013-10-31 31 October 2013
Ján Šikuta	Slovakia	Judge	2004	02013-10-31 31 October 2013
Dragoljub Popović	Serbia	Judge	2005	02014-04-03 3 April 2014
Ineta Ziemele	Latvia	Judge	2005	02015-10-31 31 October 2015
Mark Villiger	Liechtenstein	Judge	2006	02015-08-31 31 August 2015
Isabelle Berro-Lefèvre	Monaco	Judge	2006	02015-09-10 10 September 2015
Päivi Hirvelä	Finland	Judge	2007	02015-12-31 31 December 2015
Giorgio Malinverni	Switzerland	Judge	2007	02011-10-03 3 October 2011
George Nicolaou	Cyprus	Judge	2008	02015-09-16 16 September 2015
Luis López Guerra	Spain	Judge	2008	02017-01-31 31 January 2017
András Sajó	Hungary	Judge	2008	02017-01-31 31 January 2017
Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska	Macedonia	Judge	2008	02017-01-31 31 January 2017
Ledi Bianku	Albania	Judge	2008	02017-01-31 31 January 2017
Nona Tsotsoria	Georgia	Judge	2008	02017-01-31 31 January 2017
Ann Power	Ireland	Judge	2008	02017-03-02 2 March 2017
Zdravka Kalaydjieva	Bulgaria	Judge	2008	02017-04-30 30 April 2017
Ayşe Işıl Karakaş	Turkey	Judge	2008	02017-04-30 30 April 2017
Mihai Poalelungi	Moldova	Judge	2008	02017-04-30 30 April 2017
Nebojša Vučinić	Montenegro	Judge	2008	02017-08-26 26 August 2017
Kristina Pardalos	San Marino	Judge	2009	02018-09-20 20 September 2018
Guido Raimondi	Italy	Judge	2010	02019-05-04 4 May 2019
Ganna Yudkivska	Ukraine	Judge	2010	02019-06-14 14 June 2019
Vincent De Gaetano	Malta	Judge	2010	02019-09-19 19 September 2019
Angelika Nussberger	Germany	Judge	2011	02019-12-31 31 December 2019
Julia Laffranque	Estonia	Judge	2011	02020-01-03 3 January 2020

The judge elected in respect of Portugal, Ireneu Cabral Barreto, retired on 5 February 2011 on reaching the mandatory retirement age of seventy. His successor, Paulo Sérgio Pinto de Albuquerque, was elected by the Parliamentary Assembly on 25 January 2011 and must take office within three months of this.^[2]

Sections

The Court is divided into five Sections, to which each of the judges is assigned. The following table presents the membership of each section, correct as of 4 January 2011.^[3]

Composition of the Sections
Position	Section I	Section II	Section III	Section IV	Section V
Section President	Nina Vajić	Françoise Tulkens	Josep Casadevall	Sir Nicolas Bratza	Dean Spielmann
Section Vice-President	Anatoly Kovler	Danutė Jočienė	Corneliu Bîrsan	Lech Garlicki	Elisabet Fura
Judge	Christos Rozakis	I. Cabral Barreto	Alvina Gyulumyan	Ljiljana Mijović	Jean-Paul Costa
Judge	Peer Lorenzen	David Björgvinsson	Egbert Myjer	Sverre Jebens	Karel Jungwiert
Judge	Elisabeth Steiner	Dragoljub Popović	Ján Šikuta	Päivi Hirvelä	Boštjan Zupančič
Judge	Khanlar Hajiyev	Giorgio Malinverni	Ineta Ziemele	Ledi Bianku	Mark Villiger
Judge	George Nicolaou	András Sajó	Luis López Guerra	Zdravka Kalaydjieva	Isabelle Berro-Lefèvre
Judge	M. Lazarova Trajkovska	Ayşe Işıl Karakaş	Nona Tsotsoria	Nebojša Vučinić	Ann Power
Judge	Julia Laffranque	Guido Raimondi	Mihai Poalelungi	Vincent A. De Gaetano	Ganna Yudkivska
Judge			Kristina Pardalos		Angelika Nussberger
Section Registrar	S. Nielsen	S. Naismith	S. Quesada	L. Early	C. Westerdiek
Deputy Section Registrar	A. Wampach	F. Elens-Passos	M. Tsirli	F. Araçi	S. Phillips

Notes

^ "Composition of the Court". European Court of Human Rights. http://www.echr.coe.int/ECHR/EN/Header/The+Court/The+Court/Judges+of+the+Court/. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
^ ^a ^b "Procedure for electing judges to the European Court of Human Rights". Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. 9 February 2011. p. 7. http://assembly.coe.int/CommitteeDocs/2011/09022011_procedureelctionsjuges_E.pdf. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
^ "Composition of the Sections". European Court of Human Rights. http://www.echr.coe.int/ECHR/EN/Header/The+Court/The+Court/The+Sections/. Retrieved 7 January 2011.

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Major NGOs	Amnesty International · FIDH · Human Rights Watch · International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)