The Netherlands
Hoge Raad der Nederlanden
Mrs Dineke de Groot
President since: 1 November 2020
Justice of the supreme court since: 2012
Career before being justice of the Supreme Court:
She has been a member of the judiciary since October 1990. After completing her training as a judge, she joined the Amsterdam District Court in 1996 and was also a member of the Arnhem Court of Appeal in 2009. She has been working for the Supreme Court in civil and tax law since 2012, first as counsel and from 1 January 2018 as vice-president. Over the years, she has combined her judicial work with work on behalf of the judicial organisation as a whole. Since mid-2011, she has been Extraordinary Professor of Jurisprudence and Conflict Resolution at VU University Amsterdam.