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
Incumbent
Assumed office 30 November 2017
Preceded by	Yaroslav Romanyuk
Personal details
Born	March 23, 1957 Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian SSR
Nationality	Ukrainian
Alma mater	Odessa University
Occupation	jurist

Danishevska is from Zaporizhzhia 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 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

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

External links

• Valentyna Danishevska at the Official Ukraine Today