The Judicial Council on Friday elected Supreme Court judge Besa Ademi as president of the Supreme Court of North Macedonia with 12 votes in favor and one against.
Moreover, Ademi won the votes of the ethnic communities 4:1.
“Besa Ademi, a judge at the Supreme Court of North Macedonia, has been elected Supreme Court president,” reads a press release published on the Judicial Council website.
Judges Xhemaili Saiti and Lidija Nedelkova were also vying for the post.
Besa Ademi was born January 23, 1964 in Skopje. She lives in Skopje and her nationality is Albanian.
Ademi graduated in 1990 from the Skopje-based Faculty of Law and passed the bar exam in 1993.
On December 15, 1990 she started working as a trainee at the District Court in Skopje and on February 8, 1994 was hired as an expert associate at the same court.
Between 1999 and 2004, Ademi worked as deputy public prosecutor. On June 15, 2004, she was elected judge in the Skopje-based Appellate Court.
Ademi was elected Supreme Court judge on July 7, 2009.
