Valentyna Ivanivna Danishevska (; born 23 March 1957) is a Ukrainian lawyer and judge who served as Chairwoman of the Supreme Court of Ukraine from 2017 to 2021. She is the first woman to hold the position of the Head of the

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. She graduated law faculty of the

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in 1983. Her career started by working for various government enterprises legal departments. By late 1980s she became an arbiter, at first at the commerce department of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast State Administration and since 1992 at the Zaporizhzhia Oblast Arbitration Court. In 2000s Danishevska worked for

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as a director of the Center of Commerce Law. In 2016, she was elected a judge of arbitration court of the Supreme Court of Ukraine. In 2017, Danishevska was selected as a chairwoman of the Supreme Court of Ukraine. During the voting she earned 67 votes of 111 participants. Danishevska was elected on the term of four years.Valentyna Danishevska was elected a head of the Supreme Council (Валентина Данішевська обрана головою Верховного Суду)
argumentua. 30 November 2017 On November 30, 2021, she resigned.

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