Valentyna Danishevska

Valentyna Danishevska (Ukrainian: Валентина Іванівна Данішевська) is a Ukrainian lawyer, and judge. She is the first woman to hold the position of the Head of the Supreme Court of Ukraine.

Valentyna Danishevska
Chairwoman of the Supreme Court of Ukraine
Assumed office
30 November 2017
Preceded byYaroslav Romanyuk
Personal details
Born (1957-03-23) March 23, 1957
Zaporizhia, Ukrainian SSR
NationalityUkrainian
Alma materOdessa University
Occupationjurist

Danishevska is from Zaporizhia Oblast. She graduated law faculty of the Odessa University in 1983. Her career Danishevska started by working for various government enterprises legal departments. By late 1980s she became an arbiter at first at the commerce department of the Zaporizhia Oblast State Administration and since 1992 at the Zaporizhia Oblast Arbitration court.

In 2000s Danishevska worked for Deloitte as a director of the Center of Commerce Law.

In 2016 she was elected a judge of arbitration court of the Supreme Court of Ukraine. In 2017 Danishevska was selected as a chairwoman of the Supreme Court of Ukraine.[1] During the voting she earned 67 votes of 111 participants.[2] Danishevska was elected on the term of four years.[3]

References
  1. The new head of the Supreme Council of Ukraine was elected Valentyna Danishevska (Новим головою Верховного суду України обрали Валентину Данішевську). 24 TV. 30 November 2017
  2. Fedir Prokopchuk. Who is the new head of the Supreme Court of Ukraine Valentyna Danishevska (Хто така нова голова Верховного Суду України Валентина Данішевська). Hromadske. 30 November 2017
  3. Valentyna Danishevska was elected a head of the Supreme Council (Валентина Данішевська обрана головою Верховного Суду). argumentua. 30 November 2017
Political offices
Preceded by
Yaroslav Romanyuk		 Chairperson of the Supreme Court of Ukraine
2017–		 Succeeded by
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