Barbara Brezigar

Barbara Brezigar (2011)

Barbara Brezigar , née Gregorin (born December 1, 1953 in Ljubljana ) is a Slovenian lawyer and politician . She was Attorney General of Slovenia from 2005 to 2011.

Life

Barbara Gregorin attended the Bežigrad grammar school in Ljubljana and after graduating, studied law at the University of Ljubljana , where she completed her diploma on motor vehicle insurance in 1977. In 1976, while still studying, she married the civil engineer Bogoslav Brezigar.

During her legal clerkship in Ljubljana, she had a son and was nevertheless able to successfully complete her legal clerkship early. She then worked for the public prosecutor's office in the Ljubljana district and gave birth to a daughter during this time.

In 1993 she took over the management of the General and Economic Affairs Department of the Public Prosecutor's Office (Oddelek za splošne in gospodarske zadeve) and one year later became deputy head of the Ljubljana District Public Prosecutor's Office, Tomaž Miklavčič . In 1997 she became a member of the Committee on Money Laundering of the Council of Europe and a year later became a senior prosecutor. In 1999 she ran unsuccessfully for the office of attorney general.

In the short-lived government of Andrei Bajuk in 2000, Barbara Brezigar was Minister of Justice. In 2002 she ran in the presidential elections in Slovenia as a non-party with the support of the parties SDS , NSI and SLS + SKD , where she came second with 30.8% of the votes in the first ballot. In the second ballot she received 43.5% of the vote and was therefore defeated by her opponent Janez Drnovšek .

The government under Janez Janša appointed her as attorney general in 2004, as which she was confirmed on May 20, 2005 by the Slovenian parliament. In 2011 Zvonko Fišer became her successor.

Web links

• Mladina No. 1/2002: CV (in Slovenian)