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 January 2015^[1] are, in order of precedence:

Name	Country	Position	Elected	Term Ends^[2]
Dean Spielmann	Luxembourg	President	2004
Josep Casadevall	Andorra	Vice-President	1998	02015-10-31-000031 October 2015
Guido Raimondi	Italy	Vice-President	2010	02019-05-05-00005 May 2019
Isabelle Berro-Lefèvre	Monaco	Section President	2006	02015-09-10-000010 September 2015
Mark Villiger	Liechtenstein	Section President	2006	02015-08-31-000031 August 2015
Ayşe Işıl Karakaş	Turkey	Section President	2008	02017-04-30-000030 April 2017
Boštjan Zupančič	Slovenia	Judge	1998	02015-10-31-000031 October 2015
Elisabeth Steiner	Austria	Judge	2001	02015-10-31-000031 October 2015
Khanlar Hajiyev	Azerbaijan	Judge	2004	02015-10-31-000031 October 2015
Ján Šikuta	Slovakia	Judge	2004	02013-10-31-000031 October 2013
Päivi Hirvelä	Finland	Judge	2007	02015-12-31-000031 December 2015
George Nicolaou	Cyprus	Judge	2008	02015-09-16-000016 September 2015
Luis López Guerra	Spain	Judge	2008	02017-01-31-000031 January 2017
András Sajó	Hungary	Judge	2008	02017-01-31-000031 January 2017
Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska	Macedonia	Judge	2008	02017-01-31-000031 January 2017
Ledi Bianku	Albania	Judge	2008	02017-01-31-000031 January 2017
Nona Tsotsoria	Georgia	Judge	2008	02017-01-31-000031 January 2017
Nebojša Vučinić	Montenegro	Judge	2008	02017-08-26-000026 August 2017
Kristina Pardalos	San Marino	Judge	2009	02018-09-20-000020 September 2018
Ganna Yudkivska	Ukraine	Judge	2010	02019-06-14-000014 June 2019
Vincent A. De Gaetano	Malta	Judge	2010	02019-09-19-000019 September 2019
Angelika Nussberger	Germany	Judge	2011	02019-12-31-000031 December 2019
Julia Laffranque	Estonia	Judge	2011	02020-01-03-00003 January 2020
Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque	Portugal	Judge	2011	02020-04-01-00001 April 2020
Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos	Greece	Judge	2011	02020-01-18-000018 January 2020
Erik Møse	Norway	Judge	2011	02020-10-09-00009 October 2020
Helen Keller	Switzerland	Judge	2011	02020-10-04-00004 October 2020
André Potocki	France	Judge	2011	02020-06-21-000021 June 2020
Paul Lemmens	Belgium	Judge	2012	02021-09-13-000013 September 2021
Helena Jäderblom	Sweden	Judge	2012	02021-10-31-000031 October 2021
Paul Mahoney	United Kingdom	Judge	2012	02021-11-01-00001 November 2021
Aleš Pejchal	Czech Republic	Judge	2012	02021-11-01-00001 November 2021
Johannes Silvis	Netherlands	Judge	2012	02021-11-01-00001 November 2021
Krzysztof Wojtyczek	Poland	Judge	2012	02021-11-01-00001 November 2021
Valeriu Gritco	Moldova	Judge	2012	02020-11-01-00001 November 2020
Faris Vehabović	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Judge	2012	02020-12-03-00003 December 2020
Ksenija Turković	Croatia	Judge	2012	02021-10-31-000031 October 2021
Dmitry Dedov	Russia	Judge	2013	02022-10-31-000031 October 2022
Egidijus Kūris	Lithuania	Judge	2013	02022-10-31-000031 October 2022
Robert Spano	Iceland	Judge	2013	02022-10-30-000030 October 2022
Iulia Motoc	Romania	Judge	2013	02022-12-18-000018 December 2022
Jon Fridrik Kjølbro	Denmark	Judge	2014	02023-04-02-00002 April 2023
Branko Lubarda	Serbia	Judge	2015	02024-04-14-000014 April 2024
Yonko Grozev	Bulgaria	Judge	2015	02024-04-14-000014 April 2024
(Currently vacant)	Armenia	Judge	vacant
(Currently vacant)	Latvia	Judge	vacant
(Currently vacant)	Ireland	Judge	vacant

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 1 February 2014.^[3]

Composition of the Sections
Position	Section I	Section II	Section III	Section IV	Section V
Section President	Isabelle Berro-Lefèvre	Ayşe Işıl Karakaş	Josep Casadevall	Guido Raimondi	Mark Villiger
Section Vice-President	Elisabeth Steiner	András Sajó	Luis López Guerra	Päivi Hirvelä	Angelika Nußberger
Judge	Khanlar Hajiyev	Nebojša Vučinić	Ján Šikuta	George Nicolaou	Dean Spielmann
Judge	Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska	Helen Keller	Kristina Pardalos	Ledi Bianku	Boštjan Zupančič
Judge	Julia Laffranque	Paul Lemmens	Johannes Silvis	Nona Tsotsoria	Ganna Yudkivska
Judge	Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque	Egidijus Kūris	Valeriu Gritco	Paul Mahoney	Vincent A. De Gaetano
Judge	Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos	Robert Spano	Iulia Motoc	Krzysztof Wojtyczek	André Potocki
Judge	Erik Møse	Jon Fridrik Kjølbro	Branko Lubarda	Faris Vehabović	Helena Jäderblom
Judge	Ksenija Turković		(Armenian Judge) (Currently vacant)	Yonko Grozev	Aleš Pejchal
Judge	Dmitry Dedov			(Latvian Judge) (Currently vacant)	(Irish Judge) (Currently vacant)
Section Registrar	S. Nielsen	S. Naismith	S. Philips	F. Elens-Passos	C. Westerdiek
Deputy Section Registrar	A. Wampach	A. Campos	M. Tsirli	F. Araçi	M. Blasko

Notes

↑ "Composition of the Court". European Court of Human Rights. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
↑ "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. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
↑ "Composition of the Sections". European Court of Human Rights. Retrieved 19 February 2014.

Council of Europe

Institutions	Secretary General Committee of Ministers Parliamentary Assembly Congress Court of Human Rights Commissioner for Human Rights Commission for the Efficiency of Justice Commission against Racism and Intolerance

Members	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia¹ Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom

Observers	Canada Israel Japan Mexico United States Vatican City

Former Members	Czechoslovakia (1991–1992) Saar (assoc. 1950–1956)

¹ Provisionally referred to by the Council of Europe as "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia"; see Macedonia naming dispute.

International human rights organisations and institutions

Types	Human rights group Human rights commission Human rights institutions Truth and reconciliation commission

International institutions	Committee on the Rights of the Child Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities International Criminal Court Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights UN Human Rights Committee UN Human Rights Council UN Security Council

Regional bodies	African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights African Court of Justice European Court of Human Rights European Committee for the Prevention of Torture Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Multi-lateral bodies	European Union Council of Europe Organisation of American States (OAS) UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) International Labour Organization (ILO) World Health Organization (WHO) UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) UN Population Fund (UNFPA) UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) UN Development Programme (UNDP) Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)

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

List of judges of the European Court of Human Rights

Sections

See also

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