Südaba Jamshid gizi Hasanova (; born 1947), is an Azerbaijani magistrate, the first female President of the Supreme Court and

Minister of Justice A justice ministry, ministry of justice, or department of justice, is a ministry or other government agency in charge of the administration of justice. The ministry or department is often headed by a minister of justice (minister for justice in a ...

. She is also a magistrate of the Constitutional Court.

Biography

Hesenova was born in

Şərur Sharur ( ) is a city in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan. It is the administrative centre of the Sharur District. The city is located 66 km northwest of Nakhchivan city, on the Sharur plain. History In a manuscript of the 16t ...

, nowadays part of the

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. In 1971 graduated in Laws at the

Baku State University Baku State University (BSU) (BDU; ) is a public university located in Baku, Azerbaijan. Established on 1 September 1919 by the Parliament of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, the university started with faculties of history and philology, physics ...

Career

Since 1971 and 1973, she worked as a consultant in the Department of Judicial Bodies of the Ministry of Justice of the

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. Since 1973, she has been a judge of the district court of the city of

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. In 1979, Hasanova was elected member of the Baku City Court and its Presidency. On 27 March 1980, Hasanova was elected a member of the Supreme Court of Justice of Azerbaijan. In November 1980, she was appointed to the position of instructor in the administrative division of the Central Committee of the

Communist Party of Azerbaijan The Azerbaijan Communist Party (; ) was the ruling political party in the Azerbaijan SSR, making it effectively a branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It was formed on 20 February 1920, when the Muslim Social Democratic Party, ...

and worked there until 1987. Hasanova was appointed to the post of First Deputy Minister of Justice of the

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in April 1987. Between 1995 and 1998 she was Minister of Justice of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the cabinet of

Fuad Guliyev Fuad Halil oghlu Guliyev ( (Latin), Фуад Хәлил оғлу Гулиев (Cyrillic), IPA: uˈad χæˈlil oɣˈlu ɡuˈlijef Russian: Фуа́д Хали́лович Кули́ев, IPA: uˈat xɐˈlʲiləvʲɪtɕ kuˈlʲijɪf; born 6 July ...

and

Artur Rasizade Artur Tahir oghlu Rasizade (; born 26 February 1935) is an Azerbaijani politician who served as the Prime Minister of Azerbaijan from 1996 until 2018 under the authoritarian regimes of Heydar Aliyev and his son Ilham Aliyev. Thomas de Waal writ ...

. Since December 1998, she was president of the Judicial and Legal Council of the

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan The president of the Republic of Azerbaijan is the head of state of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The Constitution states that the president is the embodiment of executive power, commander-in-chief, "representative of Azerbaijan in home and for ...

. She was a member of the State Commission and its working group, the Legal Reform Commission, the pardon, education, health, anti-corruption and other state commissions that drafted the

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project of the Republic of Azerbaijan. By decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan of 18 April 2000, she was appointed President of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Azerbaijan until 19 April 2005. By the decree of

National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repr ...

of the Republic dated 23 December 2005, was appointed judge of the

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, ceasing her office as judge of the Supreme Court.

Honours

She was awarded the

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for his effective activity in judicially the decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan of 5 February 2007. On 3 February 2017, she was honored as "honorary lawyer".S.C.Həsənovaya “Əməkdar hüquqşünas” fəxri adının verilməsi haqqında Azərbaycan Respublikası Prezidentinin Sərəncamı

References

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