President

Jacek Chlebny LL.D. LL.D. (habilitated)

The President of the Supreme Administrative Court

 

Graduate of law and administration at the University of Łódź.

In 1986, he was appointed to the post of judge at the District Court of Łódź. Since 1989 he was the president of the 2^nd Civil Department, and then since 1990  Vice-President of the said Court. Since 1991 he held the post of judge at the Voivodship Court in Łódź.

By the order of the President of the Republic of Poland of 14 June 1994, he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court in Łódź branch and in 1995 by the to the post of the President of the said branch. He held the said post and – after the implementation of constitutional administrative judiciary reform 2004 – the post of the President of Voivodship Administrative Court in Łódź till February 2005.  Then he was transferred to adjudicate at the Supreme Administrative Court. From 13 February 2006 to 9 April 2015 he held the position of the President of the Voivodship Administrative Court in Warsaw.

By the order of the President of the Republic of Poland of 18 March 2016, with effect from 10 April 2015, he was appointed to the post of the Vice-President of the Supreme Administrative Court.

In 1994 he obtained LL.D., and in 2013 in the title of habilitated doctor in law. He is employed as an associate professor at the Department of Polish Administrative Procedure of the University of Łódź. His scientific interests focus on administrative and
administrative court proceedings and legal issues related to foreigners.

He is one of the co-founders of the International Association of Refugee Law Judges (IARLJ), a former long-serving member of the Association Council and a member of the Board of Association between 2009 and 2014.

Since 2014 he has been a member (a treasurer) of the Board of the Association of the Councils of State and Supreme Administrative Jurisdictions of the European Union (ACA-Europe).