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Lee Youngjin | |
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이영진 | |
 Lee in 2024 | |
| Justice of the Constitutional Court of Korea | |
| In office 18 October 2018 –17 October 2024 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 July 1961 |
| Alma mater | Sungkyunkwan University |
Lee Youngjin is a South Korean judge. He was appointed to Justice of the Constitutional Court of Korea in 2018.
He is from Hongseong County, South Chungcheong Province,After graduating from Sungkyunkwan University Law school, he passed the bar examination,Thirty-second with first-class honors in 1990. He began his career as a judge at the Cheongju District Court,He then served as a judicial policy officer at the National Court Administration and as a presiding judge at the Jeonju District Court and Suwon District Courts,He left the court in 2009 and served as a specialist member of the National Assembly's Legislation and Judiciary Committee for two years,After being reappointed as a judge in 2011, he served as a professor at the Judicial Research and Training Institute and as a presiding judge at the Seoul Central District court, Busan High Court, and Seoul High Court, [1] ,He succeeded Justice Kang Il-won and was appointed a judge of the Constitutional court, [2] ,By President Moon Jae-in on October 18, 2018, upon the recommendation of the Pareunmirai Party. [3]
