Oddný Mjöll Arnardóttir

Oddný Mjöll Arnardóttir (born 16 January 1970) is an Icelandic lawyer, human rights academic and judge, first female judge at the European Court of Human Rights with respect to Iceland since 2023. She previously served at the Court of Appeals.

Career Oddný was born on 16 January 1970 in Reykjavík, Iceland. She got a degree in law for the University of Iceland in 1994 and a PhD in Law for the University of Edinburgh in 2002 with the thesis Equality and Non-Discrimination in the European Convention on Human Rights; Towards a Substantive Approach.

She practised law between 1994 and 1996, and between 2002 and 2006. On 24 January 2023, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected by an asolute majority Oddný as a judge to the European Court of Human Rights representing Iceland and was sworn in on 15 March 2023.