EU Court of Justice appoints Spanish judge
The representatives of the governments of the member states appointed Maria Lourdes Arastey Sahún as judge and reappointed Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordona as advocate-general of the Court of Justice of the EU
In total, two judges and two advocates-general of the Court of Justice of the European Union have been appointed:
Ms Küllike Jürimäe (Estonia) has been reappointed as a judge of the Court of Justice.
Mr Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordona (Spain) has been reappointed as an advocate-general of the Court of Justice.
Ms Maria Lourdes Arastey Sahún (Spain) has been appointed for the post of judge of the Court of Justice.
Ms Tamara Ćapeta (Croatia) has been appointed for the post of advocate-general of the Court of Justice.
The proposed appointments are for a term of office ending on 6 October 2027.
Lourdes Arastey Sahún (pictured left), judge of the Social Division of the Supreme Court of Spain, will replace Rosario Silva. Arastey is an expert in Gender Equality and Judicial Independence, she is the author of several publications and a lecturer on Labour Law, Discrimination, Gender and Equality, Mediation and Union Law. She graduated in Law from the Universidad de Barcelona. She has been a member of the Spanish Judiciary since 1984 and a Justice at the Spanish Supreme Court since 2009. She was an Associate Professor in Labour and Social Security Law at the University of Barcelona (1998-2006) and a member of several EU twinning projects on justice for the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union (2006-2010). She was a TAIEX Expert in Kosovo involved in drafting the social security system of the Kosovo Protection Corps (2008). Arastey Sahún is vice-president of Groupement Européen del Magistrats pour la Médiation (GEMME), founder of the Spanish judicial network on European Law (REDUE).
Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordona (pictured right) graduated in Law from the Universidad de Sevilla and Granada (1967-72). He has been a public prosecutor at the courts of Palma de Mallorca and Seville (1977-82), a judge in the Chamber for Contentious Administrative Proceedings of the High Court of Justice of Andalucia, of the National High Court and of the High Court of Justice of the Canaries (1982-89), president of the Chamber for Contentious Administrative Proceedings of the High Court of Justice of Cantabria (1989-94), Legal secretary at the Court of Justice of the European Communities (1995-99), member of the Board of the Association of Councils of State and Supreme Administrative Jurisdictions of the European Union (ACA-Europe) (2006-14), member of the Central Electoral Board (2012-15), judge in the Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court of Spain (1999-2015), and Advocate General at the Court of Justice since 7 October 2015.
The appointments are part of the partial renewal of the composition of the Court of Justice since the terms of office of 14 judges and 6 advocates‑general will expire on 6 October 2021. The Court of Justice of the European Union consists of two courts: the Court of Justice and the General Court.
