Susan Denham

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Susan Denham.

Susan Mary Denham ( born Susan Mary Gageby in Sandymount / Dublin in 1945 ) is a retired Irish judge and was the eleventh Chief Justice of Ireland from 2011 to 2017 . She was the first woman in this office.

Family and education

Susan Gageby was born near Dublin in 1945 and studied at Alexandra College, Trinity College Dublin , at the King's Inns and in 1972 earned an LL.M. at Columbia University in New York . She is the daughter of former Irish Times editor Douglas Gageby and the sister of criminal defense attorney Patrick Gageby. Her maternal grandfather, Seán Lester , was the third and last Secretary General of the League of Nations between 1940 and 1946. She and her husband, pediatrician Brian Denham, have four children.

Denham was Deputy Chancellor of Trinity College Dublin from 1996 to 2010. She is a member of the Church of Ireland , that is, of Protestant faith. In 2012 she was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy .

Practice as a lawyer

Denham was admitted to the bar in 1971 and received the title of Senior Counsel in 1987. She worked in the Midland district until 1979 when she moved to Dublin. She made a name for herself in particular in the context of appointment procedures.

judge

Denham became a High Court judge in 1991 . In 1992 she became the first woman to become a member of the Irish Supreme Court.

Between 1995 and 1998, she chaired a commission preparing the first major reform of the Irish judicial system since the founding of the Irish state, resulting in the creation of the Irish Courts Service. Denham was a member of the Courts Service's board of directors from its inception and chaired it from 2001 to 2004. Between 2006 and 2009 she also headed a working group to create an Irish Court of Appeal.

In 2011 she was appointed Chief Justice of Ireland by the President of Ireland . Denham was the first woman and the first Protestant to serve as Chief Justice of Ireland.

Together with judges from the Netherlands and Belgium, she founded the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary . In 2015 she became Chair of the Network of Presidents of the Supreme Courts of the European Union and held this office until the end of 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helen Curley (Ed.): Local Ireland Almanac and Yearbook of Facts. 2000 . Local Ireland, 2000, ISBN 0-9536537-0-6 , pp. 297 .
  2. ^ Gavan Reilly: Susan Denham to become Ireland's first female chief justice . In: The Journal.ie . July 19, 2011 ( thejournal.ie [accessed February 26, 2017]).
  3. ^ New Chief Justice nominated . In: The Irish Times . July 19, 2011 ( irishtimes.com [accessed February 26, 2017]).
  4. ↑ llm.uniiks.com: LLM.Uniiks - Susan Denham '72 LL.M. (Columbia Law School) appointed Ireland's first female Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. July 21, 2017, accessed February 26, 2017 .
  5. ^ Susan Denham nominated for top Irish legal post . In: BBC News . July 20, 2011 ( bbc.co.uk [accessed February 26, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Denham, Susan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Denham, Susan Mary; Gageby, Susan Mary (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish Chief Justice
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Sandymount , Dublin