Jutta Limbach

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office = 7th President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
term_start = June 30, 1994
term_end = April 10, 2002
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predecessor = Roman Herzog
successor = Hans-Jürgen Papier
office2 = Vicepresident of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
term_start2 = March 24, 1994
term_end2 = September 14, 1994
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predecessor2 = Ernst Mahrenholz
successor2 = Johann Friedrich Henschel
office3 = Senator for Justice of Berlin
term_start3 = 1989
term_end3 = 1994
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predecessor3 = Rupert Scholz
successor3 = Lore Maria Peschel-Gutzeit
birth_date = birth date and age|1934|3|27
birth_place = Berlin, Germany
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alma_mater = Free University of Berlin
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Jutta Limbach (born March 27 1934 in Berlin) is a German jurist and politician. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). She received her doctorate in law in 1966 by the Free University of Berlin and fulfilled the requirements to be appointed professor by the German educational system in 1971. In 1972, she was appointed professor of private law at the Free University. From 1987 to 1989, she was member of an academic advisory council at the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. Under Walter Momper as mayor, Limbach was the senator for Justice in Berlin from 1989 to 1994. In 1994, she was then appointed to the position of vice-president of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, the same year she became president, succeeding Roman Herzog. She was the first female president of the court and served in this role until she reached the age limit of 68 in 2002. She then became president of the German non-profit organization Goethe-Institut. In 2004, she was repeatedly named as a possible candidate to succeed Johannes Rau as President of Germany in that year's election. Limbach is a member of the committee of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. In 2005, she was awarded the Louise-Schroeder-Medal.