title: Danutė Jočienė
text: # Danutė Jočienė
  
  Danutė Jočienė (maiden name Sadauskaitė, born November 10, 1970, in Tučiai, Mažeikiai, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian lawyer.
  
  Jočienė 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.
  
  Jočienė'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. She was member of this court up until 2013.
  
  In 2014, Jočienė was appointed to the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania. In 2021, she was appointed to the Court's chairman position and thus, Jočienė became first chairwoman to lead the Constitutional Court.
  
  