Salome Zimmermann

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Salome Zimmermann (* 1957 in Zurich ) is a Swiss lawyer. She is a former judge at the Swiss Federal Administrative Court and a board member of the lesbian organization Switzerland . Zimmermann is a member of the Swiss Social Democratic Party .

Career

Salome Zimmermann studied law . She registered as one of the few women for military service and achieved the rank of " captain " there. After she was admitted to the bar , she worked for ten years in a commercial law firm and was then on the management of the umbrella association of building cooperatives for another ten years. She also presided over the Women's Refuge Foundation for eight years. She spent two and a half years in the United States , where she was assistant director at the Philadelphia Opera .

Work at the Federal Administrative Court

Zimmermann was a judge at the Federal Administrative Court from 2007 to 2019. In her presidency of Division I, she oversaw the federal intelligence service . After the adoption of a new news law by the Swiss electorate in 2016 (coming into force in 2017), she and her deputy alone decided whether surveillance was lawful.

As a judge, she was involved in decisions that attracted international attention: for example, her chamber stopped the disclosure of customer data from the Swiss bank UBS to the USA. And she tasted alcopops to see if the drinks were sweet. "Happy hour in court," was the headline in the US media.

Private life

Zimmermann is the mother of two adult sons and has a long-distance relationship with her partner.

Political commitment

Salome Zimmermann has experience with intersectional discrimination. She counts herself among four minorities and describes it as follows: "I am a woman, Jewish, lesbian and left-wing". Today she is a board member of the Lesbian Organization Switzerland (LOS). There she campaigns for more visibility for lesbians - in politics and society. In this capacity she fought for the adoption of the extension of the anti-racial criminal norm in Article 261bis StGB with the criterion " sexual orientation ". The bill makes public inciting for hatred or discrimination against lesbians, gays and bisexuals as a group punishable. The extension of the anti-racial punishment norm was adopted on February 9, 2020.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f “If I don't approve, it can have fatal consequences” . In: Tages-Anzeiger . ISSN  1422-9994 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed April 30, 2020]).
  2. ↑ “If I don't approve, it can have fatal consequences” . In: Tages-Anzeiger . ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed on April 30, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Claudia Blumer, Patrick Vögeli: Is it still allowed to tell gay jokes? Retrieved April 30, 2020 (Swiss Standard German).
  4. ↑ team. Accessed April 30, 2020 (English).
  5. ↑ LGB committee campaigns for yes to the extended anti-racism penal norm. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  6. ↑ The Federal Council: Prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Carpenter, Salome
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich