Toma Birmontienė
Toma Birmontienė (born April 15, 1956 in Poltava ) is a Lithuanian lawyer, constitutional lawyer , professor , former judge at the Constitutional Court (2005-2014).
Life
In 1979 Toma Birmontienė graduated from Vilnius University with a law degree . In 1989 she did her doctorate at the Lomonossow University in Moscow on the subject of the creation of the Soviet militia in Lithuania (lit. Tarybinės milicijos sukūrimas Lietuvoje ). 1979–1990 Toma Birmontienė taught at the Faculty of Vilnius at the Minsk University of Applied Sciences at the Interior Ministry of the USSR and from 1990 at the Mykolas-Romer University and its predecessor institutions. 1998–2004 she headed the chair for constitutional law. Birmontienė also worked as a lawyer in the Ministry of Health of Lithuania . She was an advisor to President Valdas Adamkus on health policy and headed the Lithuanian Center for Human Rights from 1995 to 2004 . From March 2005 to March 2014 she was a judge at the Lithuanian Constitutional Court .
Critical perception in the media
In connection with the candidacy of Birmontienė as constitutional judge, her past in the Soviet system was viewed critically from 2004. In particular, attention was drawn to the tenor of the dissertation , one-sidedly honoring the position of the Soviet Union and the NKVD in the dispute with the forest brothers .
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Birmontienė, Toma |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lithuanian lawyer, professor of constitutional law and judge |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poltava |