Ingrid Antičević-Marinović

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Ingrid Antičević-Marinović
Minister of Justice, Public Administration and Local Self-government
In office
28 September 2001 – 23 December 2003
PresidentStjepan Mesić
Prime MinisterIvica Račan
Preceded byStjepan Ivanišević
Succeeded byVesna Škare-Ožbolt
Personal details
Born
Marija Antičević

(1957-10-04) 4 October 1957 (age 66)
Zadar, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia (now Croatia)
Political partySocial Democratic Party
(1990–2016)
SpouseMarko Marinović
ChildrenDan
Alma materUniversity of Split

Ingrid Antičević-Marinović (born Marija Antičević; on 4 October 1957) is a Croatian lawyer and former politician who serves as justice of the

Minister of Justice, Public Administration and Local Self-government in the center-left Cabinet of Ivica Račan II from 2001 to 2003. She was the first woman to serve as Justice Minister in Croatia as well as first woman lawyer in Zadar's history.[2][3]

After becoming involved in politics in year 1990 by joining Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP), Antičević-Marinović served five consecutive terms as MP, having been elected to the Croatian Parliament in the 2000, 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015 parliament elections, representing the 9th electoral district.

Early life and education

Ingrid Antičević-Marinović was born as Marija Antičević on 18 July 1958 in Zadar to Pavao and Huanita Antičević. She has two years older brother Zvonimir. She finished elementary and high school in her hometown after which she enrolled in the Faculty of Law of the University of Split from which she graduated in 1980.[4]

At the fourth year of study she became pregnant and married lawyer Marko Marinović. Her husband at first worked as a law clerk in the Yugoslav People's Army, and after that assistant district attorney in Zadar, Secretary of the Secretariat of the Interior of the Zadar municipality and eventually lawyer in a private practice.[5]

She passed the bar exam in 1982, and notary exam in 1994. After passing bar exam, she completed postgraduate studies in Criminal Sciences at the Zagreb School of Law and passed all exams except the final so she never got PhD.[6]

Career

Antičević-Marinović in Zadar, 2013

After graduation, Antičević-Marinović got employed as a lawyer in her husband's office. She was the first woman lawyer in Zadar's history. In the year 1990, she joined center-left

Lužani although its ownership was disputed at the time. She immediately resigned her position as Vice-president of SDP. In the following years, she was re-elected to the Parliament in 2007 and 2011 elections.[6] On June 4, 2016, she was elected Justice of the Constitutional Court of Croatia by the Parliament with 117 votes in favor, 15 against and 6 absent. She took her oath before president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović
on June 7, 2016, by which her first 8-year term as a Justice began.

Personal life

Ingrid Antičević-Marinović is married to lawyer Marko Marinović (b. 1942) with whom she has a son Dan (b. 1980 who is also a lawyer.

See also

  • First women lawyers around the world

References

  1. ^ Nacional (2014-06-20). "Pantovčak Prisegnuli novoizabrani ustavni suci". Nacional.Hr. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
  2. ^ "Ingrid Antičević Marinović - Večernji.hr". www.vecernji.hr. Archived from the original on 2014-03-08.
  3. ^ "Ingrid Antičević Marinović predala kandidaturu za sutkinju Ustavnog suda". 5 May 2016.
  4. ^ "Hrvatski sabor - Ingrid Antičević Marinović". Sabor.hr. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
  5. ^ "Povratak ozloglašene". Gloria.hr. 2016-06-14. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
  6. ^ a b c "Ingrid Antičević Marinović - Večernji.hr". Vecernji.hr. Archived from the original on 2014-03-08. Retrieved 2016-06-18.