Danutė Jočienė, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Danutė Jočienė

Lithuanian judge

Date of Birth: 10-Nov-1970

Place of Birth: Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic

Profession: judge, university teacher

Nationality: Lithuania

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Danute Jociene (maiden name Sadauskaite, born November 10, 1970 in Tuciai, Mažeikiai, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian lawyer.
She is the second representative of Lithuania in the European Court of Human Rights to date and the youngest judge in the Court's history (at the time of her election in May 2004 she was 33 years old). Danute Jociene graduated from the Law Faculty of Vilnius University and worked as a lecturer in the Department of the International and European Union Law of the Faculty. She was agent of the Lithuanian government for the European Court of Human Rights from 2003 to November 2004. Danute Jociene's professional work has been in the field of human rights law, and she was appointed as a judge and reporter from Lithuania to the second section of the European Court of Human Rights in 2004.