Barbara Elżbieta Piwnik (born 5 March 1955) is a Polish judge. She served as

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from 2001 to 2002.

Career

A judge by profession, on 19 October 2001, Piwnik was appointed

in the cabinet headed by Prime Minister

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. She was an independent member of the cabinet. In July 2002, Prime Minister Miller requested her resignation. Piwnik's term ended on 6 July 2002 and she was succeeded by Grzegorz Kurczuk as Minister of Justice.

References

1955 births 20th-century Polish judges Women government ministers of Poland Justice ministers of Poland Living people Female justice ministers Polish prosecutors People from Ostrowiec County University of Warsaw alumni Scholars of criminal law Recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta {{law-bio-stub