List of members of the European Court of Justice

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The following is a list of all past and present members of the European Court of Justice in the official order of precedence:

As of 9 October 2024:

YearMember StateMembers of the European Court of JusticePresidentJudgeAdv. Gen.
19521958Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Massimo Pilotti 19521958
19521958Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands Jos Serrarens 19521958
19521963Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Otto Riese  [ de ]19521963
19521967Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium Louis Delvaux  [ de ]19521967
19521962Flag of France.svg  France Jacques Rueff 19521962
19521967Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg Charles Léon Hammes 1964–196719521964
19521958Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands Adrianus van Kleffens 19521958
19521964Flag of France.svg  France Maurice Lagrange  [ id ]19521964
19531973Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Karl Roemer  [ de ]19531973
19581964Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Rino Rossi 19581964
19581979Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands Andreas Matthias Donner 1958196419641979
19581961Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Nicola Catalano  [ it ]19581961
19621976Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Alberto Trabucchi 1962197219731976
19621976Flag of France.svg  France Robert Lecourt 1967197619621967
19631970Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Walter Strauss  [ de ]19631970
19641976Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Riccardo Monaco 19641976
19641970Flag of France.svg  France Joseph Gand 19641970
19671984Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium Josse Mertens de Wilmars 1980198419671980
19671985Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg Pierre Pescatore 19671985
19701980Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Hans Kutscher 1976198019701976
19701972Flag of France.svg  France Alain Louis Dutheillet de Lamothe  [ id ]19701972
19721981Flag of France.svg  France Henri Mayras  [ id ]19721981
19731974Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh 19731974
19731979Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark Max Sørensen 19731979
19731988Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Alexander Mackenzie Stuart 1984198819731984
19731981Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Jean-Pierre Warner 19731981
19731981Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Gerhard Reischl  [ de ]19731981
19751985Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland Aindrias Ó Caoimh 19751985
19761982Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Francesco Capotorti  [ it ]1976197619761982
19761988Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Giacinto Bosco 19761988
19761982Flag of France.svg  France Adolphe Touffait  [ fr ]19761982
19791990Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands Thijmen Koopmans 19791990
19791994Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark Ole Due 1988–199419791988
19801988Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Ulrich Everling 19801988
19811982Flag of Greece.svg  Greece Alexandros Chloros 19811982
19811992Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Gordon Slynn 1988199219811988
19811984Flag of France.svg  France Simone Rozès 19811984
19811986Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands Pieter verLoren van Themaat 19811986
19811982
19881994
Flag of France.svg  France Fernand Grévisse  [ id ]19811982
19881994
19821988Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Kai Bahlmann  [ de ]19821988
19821999Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Giuseppe Federico Mancini  [ it ]1988199919821988
19821988Flag of France.svg  France Yves Galmot  [ id ]19821988
19831997Flag of Greece.svg  Greece Constantinos Kakouris 19831997
19841997Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Carl Otto Lenz 19841997
19841994Flag of France.svg  France Marco Darmon  [ de ]19841994
19841995Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium René Joliet  [ nl ]19841995
19851991Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland Thomas Francis O'Higgins 19851991
19851996Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg Fernand Schockweiler  [ id ]19851996
19861991
19972003
Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg Jean Mischo 19861991
19972003
19862000Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal José Carlos de Carvalho Moitinho de Almeida  [ pl ]19862000
19861988
20122018
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal José Luís da Cruz Vilaça  [ de ]2012201819861988
19862003Flag of Spain.svg  Spain Gil Carlos Rodriguez Iglesias 1994–200319861994
19881994Flag of Spain.svg  Spain Manuel Diez de Velasco  [ es ]19881994
19881994Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Manfred Zuleeg  [ de ]19881994
19881994Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium Walter van Gerven 19881994
19882006Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Francis G. Jacobs 19882006
19881998Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Giuseppe Tesauro 19881998
19902000Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands Paul Joan George Kapteyn 19902000
19912006Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark Claus Christian Gulmann 1994200619911994
19911999Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland John L. Murray 19911999
19922004Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom David Edward 19922004
19942006Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Antonio Mario La Pergola 19941994
19992006
19951999
19942000Flag of Greece.svg  Greece Georges Cosmas 19942000
19942000Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Günter Hirsch 19942000
19941997Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark Michael Bendik Elmer  [ id ]19941997
19942006Flag of France.svg  France Jean-Pierre Puissochet  [ id ]19942006
19942006Flag of France.svg  France Philippe Léger  [ de ]19942006
19952000Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Hans Ragnemalm 19952000
19952002Flag of Finland.svg  Finland Leif Sevón 19952002
19952000Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland Nial Fennelly 19952000
19952003
20122018
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium Melchior Wathelet 1995200320122018
19952009Flag of Austria.svg  Austria Peter Jann 19952009
19952009Flag of Spain.svg  Spain Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer 19952009
19962007Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg Romain Schintgen  [ de ]19962008
19971999Flag of Greece.svg  Greece Krateros Ioannou  [ el ]19971999
19972003Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Siegbert Alber 19972003
19982000Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Antonio Saggio 19982000
19992015Flag of Greece.svg  Greece Vassilios Skouris 2003201519992003
19992004Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland Fidelma O’Kelly Macken 19992004
20002006Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Ninon Colneric 20002006
20002006Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Stig von Bahr 20002006
20002018Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Antonio Tizzano 2006201820002006
20002012Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal José Narciso da Cunha Rodrigues 20002012
20002010Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands Christiaan Timmermans 20002010
20002006Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands Ad Geelhoed 20002006
20002006Flag of Austria.svg  Austria Christine Stix-Hackl 20002006
20022019Flag of Finland.svg  Finland Allan Rosas 20022019
20032021Flag of Spain.svg  Spain Rosario Silva de Lapuerta 20032021
2003presentFlag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium Koen Lenaerts 2015present20032015
2003presentFlag of Germany.svg  Germany Juliane Kokott 2003present
20032009Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal Luís Miguel Poiares Pessoa Maduro 20032009
20042012Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Hermann Theodor Schiemann 20042012
20042009Flag of Poland.svg  Poland Jerzy Makarczyk 20042009
20042010Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania Pranas Kūris 20042010
20042021Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary Endre Juhász 20042021
20042014Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus George Arestis 20042014
20042018Flag of Malta.svg  Malta Anthony Borg Barthet 20042018
20042024Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia Marko Ilešič 20042024
20042020Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic Jiří Malenovský  [ cs ]20042020
20042009Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia Ján Klučka  [ sk ]20042009
20042013Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia Uno Lõhmus 20042013
20042019Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia Egils Levits 20042019
20042015Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland Aindrias Ó Caoimh 20042015
20062024Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark Lars Bay Larsen  [ de ]20062024
20062020Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Eleanor Sharpston 20062020
20062018Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Paolo Mengozzi  [ id ]20062018
20062011Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Pernilla Lindh  [ sv ]20062011
20062024Flag of France.svg  France Jean-Claude Bonichot  [ de ]20062024
2006presentFlag of Germany.svg  Germany Thomas von Danwitz  [ de ]2006present
20062019Flag of France.svg  France Yves Bot 20062019
20062012Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia Ján Mazák  [ sk ]20062012
20062012Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia Verica Trstenjak 20062012
2007presentFlag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria Alexander Arabadjiev 2007present
20072021Flag of Romania.svg  Romania Camelia Toader  [ de ]20072021
20082013Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg Jean-Jacques Kasel  [ lb ]20082013
2009presentFlag of Poland.svg  Poland Marek Safjan  [ pl ]2009present
20092021Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia Daniel Šváby  [ sk ]20092021
20092019Flag of Austria.svg  Austria Maria Berger 20092019
20092015
2019present
Flag of Finland.svg  Finland Niilo Jääskinen 2019present20092015
20092015Flag of Spain.svg  Spain Pedro Cruz Villalón 20092015
20102024Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands Sacha Prechal 20102024
20102018Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania Egidijus Jarašiūnas 20102018
20112019Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Carl Gustav Fernlund  [ sv ]20112019
20122020Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Christopher Vajda 20122020
20122024Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Nils Wahl 2019202420122019
2013presentFlag of Croatia.svg  Croatia Siniša Rodin  [ de ]2013present
2013presentFlag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg François Biltgen 2013present
2013presentFlag of Estonia.svg  Estonia Küllike Jürimäe 2013present
2013presentFlag of Poland.svg  Poland Maciej Szpunar 2013present
2014presentFlag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus Constantinos Lycourgos  [ de ]2014present
20152021Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic Michal Bobek 20152021
2015presentFlag of Spain.svg  Spain Manuel Campos Sánchez Bordona  [ es ]2015present
2015presentFlag of Ireland.svg  Ireland Eugene Regan 2015present
20152021Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark Henrik Saugmandsgaard Øe  [ da ]20152021
20152021Flag of Greece.svg  Greece Michail Vilaras  [ de ]20152021
20162021Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria Evgeni Tanchev  [ pl ]20162021
20182024Flag of Malta.svg  Malta Peter George Xuereb  [ de ]20182024
2018presentFlag of Portugal.svg  Portugal Nuno José Cardoso da Silva Piçarra  [ de ]2018present
20182024Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Lucia Serena Rossi  [ de ]20182024
20182021Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland Gerard Hogan 20182021
20182023Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Giovanni Pitruzzella 20182023
2018presentFlag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania Irmantas Jarukaitis  [ lt ]2018present
20192024Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia Priit Pikamäe 20192024
2019presentFlag of Austria.svg  Austria Andreas Kumin  [ de ]2019present
2020presentFlag of France.svg  France Jean Richard de la Tour  [ id ]2020present
2020presentFlag of Greece.svg  Greece Athanasios Rantos  [ el ]2020present
2020presentFlag of Latvia.svg  Latvia Ineta Ziemele 2020present
2020presentFlag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic Jan Passer 2020present
2021presentFlag of Greece.svg  Greece Dimitrios Gratsias 2021present
2021presentFlag of Spain.svg  Spain Maria Lourdes Arastey Sahún  [ es ]2021present
20212024Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland Anthony Collins 20212024
2021presentFlag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia Miroslav Gavalec  [ cs ]2021present
2021presentFlag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus Nicholas Emiliou 2021present
2021presentFlag of Hungary.svg  Hungary Zoltán Csehi  [ hu ]2021present
2021presentFlag of Romania.svg  Romania Octavia Spineanu-Matei  [ de ]2021present
2021presentFlag of Croatia.svg  Croatia Tamara Ćapeta 2021present
2021presentFlag of Latvia.svg  Latvia Laila Medina 2021present
2024presentFlag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands Bernardus Smulders  [ nl ]2024present
2024presentFlag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg Dean Spielmann 2024present
2024presentFlag of Italy.svg  Italy Massimo Condinanzi 2024present
2024presentFlag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Fredrik Schalin  [ de ]2024present
2024presentFlag of Italy.svg  Italy Andrea Biondi 2024present
2024presentFlag of France.svg  France Stéphane Gervasoni  [ de ]2024present
2024presentFlag of Denmark.svg  Denmark Niels Fenger  [ da ]2024present
2024presentFlag of Malta.svg  Malta Ramona Frendo  [ de ]2024present
2024presentFlag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania Rimvydas Norkus  [ de ]2024present

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