Katarina Barley

Katarina Barley
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2013
Personal details
Born (1968-11-19) 19 November 1968
Cologne, West Germany
(now Germany)
Citizenship German
Nationality  Germany
Political party SPD
Alma mater University of Marburg
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Katarina Barley (* 19. November 1968 in Cologne) is a German lawyer, politician and member of the 18th German Bundestag. Her English last name comes from her British father.

Education and early career

Barley holds a doctoral degree in law and worked as a lawyer, an assistant to constitutional judge Renate Jaeger, a judge and as an adviser for the Rhineland-Palatinate State Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection before being elected to Parliament in 2013.[1]

Political career

In her parliamentary work, Barley represents the constituency of Trier for Germany's Social Democratic Party.

Barley is a member of the parliament’s Council of Elders, which – among other duties – determines daily legislative agenda items and assigning committee chairpersons based on party representation. She is also a member of the parliamentary body in charge of appointing judges to the Highest Courts of Justice, namely the Federal Court of Justice (BGH), the Federal Administrative Court (BVerwG), the Federal Fiscal Court (BFH), the Federal Labour Court (BAG), and the Federal Social Court (BSG). In 2014, she was appointed to serve on the Committee on the Election of Judges (Wahlausschuss), which is in charge of appointing judges to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. In addition, she is a member of the German-British Parliamentary Friendship Group.

In 2014, Barley served as a member of the Committee on the Affairs of the European Union.

In 2015 Barley was proposed to succeed Yasmin Fahimi in the role of general secretary of the SPD, one of the party's most senior positions.[2]

Other activities

External links

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References

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