Ninon Colneric

Ninon Colneric (b. 29 August 1948, Oer-Erkenschwick) is the first female German judge at the European Court of Justice (2000-2006). Before joining the ECJ, she served as President of the Landesarbeitsgericht Schleswig-Holstein and worked extensively on European and international labour-law reform projects.

Education

Colneric graduated from the Municipal Modern Language Girls' Grammar School in Datteln in 1967. In 1967/1968, she studied German language and literature and philosophy at the University of Tübingen with the aim of becoming a teacher.

From 2000 until 2006 she was the first female German judge at the European Court of Justice. From 2008 until 2011 she became Co-Dean at the China-EU School of Law, a cooperative project between a consortium of European universities and the China University of Political Science and Law.

Since 2018 she is member of the Whistleblower-Netzwerk e.V., and since 2020 a member of the advisory board of the Institute for Secular Law.