Valentyna Danishevska

Chairwoman of the Supreme Court of UkraineIn office
30 November 2017 – 30 November 2021Preceded byYaroslav RomanyukSucceeded byVsevolod Kniaziev Personal detailsBorn (1957-03-23) 23 March 1957 (age 67)
Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)Alma materOdesa UniversityOccupationJurist

Valentyna Ivanivna Danishevska (Ukrainian: Валентина Іванівна Данішевська; born 23 March 1957) is a Ukrainian lawyer and judge who served as Chairwoman of the Supreme Court of Ukraine from 2017 to 2021. She is the first woman to hold the position of the Head of the Supreme Court of Ukraine.

Biography

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

External links

• Valentyna Danishevska at the Official Ukraine Today

Political offices
Preceded by Yaroslav Romanyuk	Chairperson of the Supreme Court of Ukraine 2017–2021	Succeeded by Vsevolod Kniaziev