President of the Supreme Court of Montenegro
She was born in 1968 in Podgorica, Montenegro. After graduating from the Faculty of Law of the University of Montenegro in Podgorica in 1990, she passed the Bar exam in 1997 before the Commission of the Ministry of Justice of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in Belgrade.
During more than three decades of her professional career, she built a reputation as one of the most prominent judicial professionals in Montenegro. Long-term work in the judiciary was marked by decision-making in the most complex criminal cases in the areas of serious and organized crime, high-level corruption, the application of the highest European standards for the protection of human rights and a continuous contribution to strengthening the rule of law, the independence of the judiciary and the efficiency of the judicial system.
Since December 2024, she has been serving as the President of the Supreme Court of Montenegro. In this position, she leads the highest judicial institution in the country and directs activities to improve the quality, efficiency and transparency of court work, strengthen the uniform application of law, develop case-law and digital transformation of the judiciary, with a strong commitment to preserving the independence of the judiciary and strengthening the public trust in the judicial system.
By function, she is a member of the Judicial Council of Montenegro, president of the Commission for the Evaluation of Judges and president of the Commission for Witness Protection. At the same time, she is a member of the National Council for the Fight against Corruption, the Council for Monitoring the Implementation of the Judicial Reform Strategy and the Council for the Rule of Law, through which she actively participates in the creation and implementation of key policies for judicial reform and the improvement of the rule of law in Montenegro.
She chairs the Steering Committee of the EUROL IV project, financed by the European Union, aimed at modernization of the judiciary. Within this project, she manages the development and implementation of an innovative system based on artificial intelligence for searching, analyzing and harmonizing case-law, which will be available to all judges in Montenegro and which represents a significant step forward in the digitization of the judicial system.
Before being elected as the President of the Supreme Court, she was a consultant to the Council of Europe on judicial reform projects and the application of European standards in the field of human rights.
For almost nine years, she served as the Representative of Montenegro before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, representing the country in proceedings before the Court and actively contributing to the harmonization of the national legal system with the European Convention on Human Rights and the
case-law of the European Court and strengthening the rule of law.
Before that, she was a judge of the Special Department for Organized Crime, Corruption, Terrorism and War Crimes and the President of the Criminal Department of the High Court in Podgorica. As a judge, she adjudicated in the most important and complex cases in the field of organized crime, high-level corruption, human trafficking, financial crime and war crimes.
She has rich international experience acquired through long-term involvement in the bodies of the Council of Europe, the European Union, the OSCE and other international organizations.
From 2015 to 2024, she was a member of the Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH) and the Committee of Experts for the System of the European Convention on Human Rights (DH-SYSC) at the Council of Europe, while from 2019 to 2024 she was a member of the CDDH ad hoc negotiation group on the accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights ("47+1").
In the period from 2016 to 2019, she was a member of the CDDH-EXP Working Group for freedom of expression and links with other human rights, and from 2008 to 2016, she represented Montenegro in the Consultative Council of European Judges (CCJE), one of the most important expert bodies of the Council of Europe for issues of judicial independence, quality and efficiency.
She was engaged as an expert of the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ), as well as of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in the areas of combating human trafficking and cross-border crime. From 2017 to 2024, she was an expert, lecturer and consultant within the joint programme of the European Union and the Council of Europe "Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey".
She actively participated in the European integration process of Montenegro. From 2011 to 2013, she was a member of the Negotiation Group for Chapter 24 - Justice, Freedom and Security, participating in the explanatory screening in Brussels, harmonizing national legislation with the acquis of the European Union and drafting the Action Plan for Chapter 24.
In addition to judicial work, she is dedicated to education and professional development of the judicial community. Since 2014, she has been a lecturer at the Center for Training in the Judiciary and the State Prosecutor's Office of Montenegro, while she is also engaged as a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Montenegro within the legal clinics. She was also a lecturer at the School of Political Studies, the Summer School for Young Diplomats of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, professional development programs for civil servants, as well as numerous programs and projects sponsored by NGOs, the Council of Europe, the European Union and other international organizations.
Since 2021, she has been a member of the Commission for taking the Bar exam at the Ministry of Justice of Montenegro in the field of Constitutional law, as well as an external expert - a member of the Commission for Checking the Competence of Managerial Civil Servants at the Human Resources Management Authority.
She is the author and editor of more than thirty professional publications, manuals, analyses and guidelines in the field of criminal law, human rights, organized crime, the fight against corruption, cybercrime and judicial reform. The editorship and authorship of the strategic document "Unique Program for the Resolution of Old Cases 2025-2027", Guidelines for the imposition of criminal sanctions in cases of high-level corruption, organized crime, sexual and gender-based violence and other complex forms of crime, as well as the Council of Europe's national studies on the execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, stand out.
She is the author of several guides and analyzes dedicated to the application of the European Convention on Human Rights, including publications on Articles 3, 5, 6, 10 and 14 of the Convention, analyzes of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights in relation to Montenegro, studies on the protection of human and minority rights, as well as expert works on money laundering, human trafficking, cybercrime, detention, victim protection and other modern challenges of criminal justice.
She is a lecturer, panelist and speaker at numerous international conferences, expert meetings and academic forums dedicated to human rights, judicial reform, European integration, fight against corruption and organized crime, and the improvement of case-law.
Her areas of expertise include the management of the judicial system, European integration, judicial efficiency and digital transformation of the judiciary, criminal law and criminal procedure with a special focus on organized crime and corruption, international human rights law, the European Convention on Human Rights and the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights.
She is married, mother of two adult children.
Fluent in English and Italian.
