On Tuesday 5 October 1999, at 6.00pm, Mrs Fidelma Macken was sworn in as a judge with effect from that date, during a formal hearing before the Court of Justice of the European Communities. Mrs Fidelma Macken was nominated by decision of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States to serve as judge at the Court of Justice from 5 October 1999 to 6 October 2003. Mrs Macken is the first female judge to be appointed to the Court of Justice.
Born 1945; Called to the Bar of Ireland (1972); Legal Advisor, Patent and Trade Mark Agents (1973-1979); Barrister (1979-1995) and Senior Counsel (1995-1998) of the Bar of Ireland; member of the Bar of England and Wales; Judge of the High Court of Ireland (1998); Lecturer in Legal Systems and Methods and "Averil Deverell" Lecturer in Commercial Law, Trinity College, Dublin; Bencher of the Honorable Society of King's Inns.
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