JUDr. Kateřina Šimáčková, Ph.D.
(* 1966)

She obtained a law degree from the Faculty of Law, University of Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Brno (nowadays Masaryk University) where she was active as an expert assistant at the Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science from 1990 to 1993, and again since 2001. She has been still lecturing and publishing on law at this faculty. In 1992 she was an Assistant to Justice of the Constitutional Court and an attorney since 1994. She has dealt with, inter alia, constitutional complaints, in certain areas of administrative, financial and private law. She has served on the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission), the Legislative Council of the Government and the Judicial Selection Committee of the EU Civil Service Tribunal. In 2009, she was appointed a judge and assigned to the Supreme Administrative Court. In connection with her appointment as a Justice of the Constitutional Court as of 7 August 2013, she was temporarily relieved of her duties as a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court for the duration of her term as a Justice of the Constitutional Court. In 2021, she resigned as a Justice of the Constitutional Court due to her election as a judge of the European Court of Human Rights for a nine-year term. She is a member of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague and the Academic Assembly of the Czech Academy of Sciences.