Päivi Hirvelä, Date of Birth

Päivi Hirvelä

Finnish judge

Date of Birth: 10-Dec-1954

Profession: judge

Nationality: Finland

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Päivi Maarit Hirvelä (born 10 December 1954) is a Finnish former judge on the European Court of Human Rights.
Hirvelä is on leave from the Finnish state prosecutor's office.
Hirvelä holds a doctorate in law. Hirvelä worked as a general legal assistant in Sodankylä and Lahti, Finland 1981-82, referendary of the Kouvola Court of Appeal of 1984–1990 and after a district prosecutor in Lahti, until she was appointed Public Prosecutor in 1999.
She has also worked in the European Court of Human Rights Secretariat as a lawyer and a rapporteur of the Parliamentary Ombudsman's Office.
She began her post as a judge on the European Court of Human Rights on 1 January 2007.