Yvonne Ott

Yvonne Ott (born May 25, 1963 in Usingen ) is a German lawyer . From 2010 to 2016 she was a judge at the Federal Court of Justice . She has been a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court since November 8, 2016 .

Life

Ott began studying law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in 1982 and passed her first state examination in 1987. After a short time, she interrupted her legal clerkship in the regional court district of Frankfurt am Main, and from 1987 to 1992 she worked as a research assistant at the University of Frankfurt. Then she returned to the preparatory service, in 1995 she completed her legal education with the second state examination. In the previous year she received her doctorate with the topic “The parliamentary character of municipal representation: a comparative legal study of the quality of state and municipal representative bodies”.

From December 1995 she first found a job in the Hessian Ministry of Finance , where she took over as a probationary councilor, and from 1996 as a councilor in charge of the department for cabinet and parliamentary affairs. In mid-1998 she was seconded as a judge by order of the Frankfurt am Main regional court , and one year later she was appointed judge for life. From August 1999 to February 2000 she was the head of practical study periods for trainee lawyers. From 2000 to 2002 she worked temporarily as a research assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court . In November 2004, Ott was appointed presiding judge of a major criminal chamber at the Frankfurt am Main regional court. In 2004 she was also the head of trainee lawyers' working groups at the legal station. She has been a member of the 2nd Criminal Division of the Federal Court of Justice since 2010 and was also an investigative judge until the end of 2014. From 2015 to 2016 she was deputy press spokeswoman at the Federal Court of Justice.

In October 2016, Ott was elected judge of the Federal Constitutional Court by the Federal Council - at the suggestion of the SPD . She took Reinhard Gaier's place in the First Senate when he retired. Among other things, she is co-author of the Karlsruhe Commentary on the Code of Criminal Procedure .

Yvonne Ott has two children.

Web links

Press release of the Hessian Ministry of Justice, Integration and Europe from May 10th 2010: Three Hessian judges and one Hessian judge elected as federal judges
Press release No. 131/2010 of the Federal Court of Justice of June 25, 2010: New judges at the Federal Court of Justice
Gigi Deppe: constitutional judge Yvonne Ott. The woman of soft tones. In: tagesschau.de. November 8, 2016. Retrieved November 8, 2016 .

Individual evidence

^ Record in the catalog of the German National Library
^ Judge at the Federal Court of Justice Yvonne Ott elected judge at the Federal Constitutional Court. Federal Court of Justice , October 14, 2016, accessed on October 14, 2016 .
^ Karlsruhe Commentary on the Code of Criminal Procedure: StPO , 7th edition , CH Beck, Munich 2013 ISBN 978-3-406-63672-1

personal data
SURNAME	Ott, Yvonne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and judge at the Federal Court of Justice
DATE OF BIRTH	May 25, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH	Usingen , Hessen , Germany

[1] Record in the catalog of the German National Library

[2] Judge at the Federal Court of Justice Yvonne Ott elected judge at the Federal Constitutional Court. Federal Court of Justice , October 14, 2016, accessed on October 14, 2016 .

[3] Karlsruhe Commentary on the Code of Criminal Procedure: StPO , 7th edition , CH Beck, Munich 2013 ISBN 978-3-406-63672-1