Dineke de Groot explained

Dineke de Groot
Office:President of the Supreme Court
Status:counsel
Term Start:1 November 2020
Predecessor:Maarten Feteris
Birth Date:11 July 1965
Birth Place:Amsterdam, Netherlands

Dineke de Groot is the president of the Supreme Court of Netherlands since November 2020 and the first woman to serve in the capacity.[1]

She became a justice of the Supreme Court under the civil and tax law since 2012. She joined the judiciary in 1990 after judiciary training and was moved to the Amsterdam District Court in 1996. She was a member of the Arnhem Court of Appeal in 2009 and as counsel until she was made the vice president of the Supreme Court in January 2018. Although, she was an extraordinary professor of jurisprudence and conflict resolution in the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam during 2011.[2]

She holds a bachelor's degree of law in Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and also for arts in the Vienna University.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: New First President of the Supreme Court of Cassation of Netherlands. live. 10 September 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20201230011605/https://www.network-presidents.eu/news/new-first-president-supreme-court-cassation-netherlands . 2020-12-30 .
  2. Web site: NL Biography. live. 10 September 2021. network.presidents.eu. https://web.archive.org/web/20200928020640/https://network-presidents.eu/page/nl-biography . 2020-09-28 .
  3. Web site: ‘There is value in resistance’. 2021-09-10. VU Magazine.