Alma Zadić

Alma Zadić (; born 24 May 1984) is a Bosnian-born Austrian lawyer and politician of the Green Party. She served as Minister of Justice from 7 January 2020 until 3 March 2025 in the governments of Chancellors Sebastian Kurz, Alexander Schallenberg and Karl Nehammer.

Early life, education, and early career Born in Tuzla, Zadić fled to Austria with her parents in 1994 during the Bosnian War and the family settled in Vienna. She has been described as a Muslim, but denies any religious affiliation herself. While being a student, she worked as a junior legal researcher at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Vienna and as an intern at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. She was also a competitive volleyball player and fitness coach.

On 7 January 2020, Zadić, along with three other Greens, was sworn in by Austria's president Alexander Van der Bellen to serve in the Sebastian Kurz coalition government as Minister of Justice pursuant to the coalition agreement of Kurz's ÖVP with the Greens, led by Werner Kogler, who served as Vice Chancellor. She continued serving until 2025, when the government of Christian Stocker was sworn in.

Defamation case On social media, Zadić shared a photograph in which a member of a Burschenschaft was seen giving a Nazi salute, with the comment "No tolerance for neo-Nazis, fascists and racists". In November 2019, she was found guilty of defamation and fined €700 by a criminal court in Vienna.