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Dr. Yvonne Ott

Portrait of Dr. Yvonne Ott

Justice of the First Senate

Born in Usingen, Hesse in 1963

Two children

1982-1987Studied law at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University (Frankfurt am Main)
1987First State Examination in Law
1987-1992Research assistant at the Dean’s Office of the Faculty of Law and at the Chair in Constitutional, Administrative and Financial Law (Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Hans Meyer), Johann Wolfgang Goethe University (Frankfurt am Main)
1992-1995Legal traineeship (Frankfurt am Main)
1994Dr. iur., Johann Wolfgang Goethe University (Frankfurt am Main);
Doctoral thesis: “Der Parlamentscharakter der Gemeindevertretung - Eine rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung der Qualität staatlicher und gemeindlicher Vertretungskörperschaften” (“The parliamentary character of municipal councils – a comparative study on the nature of representative bodies at state and municipal levels”)
1995Second State Examination in Law
1995-1998Head of the Division of Parliamentary and Cabinet Matters at the Ministry of Finance of the Land Hesse
1998-2004Judge at the Frankfurt am Main Regional Court (Landgericht)
2000-2002Seconded to the Federal Constitutional Court as a judicial clerk (Cabinet of Federal Constitutional Court Justice Dr. Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt)
2004-2010Presiding judge at the Frankfurt am Main Regional Court
2010-2016Judge at the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof)
since November 2016Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court