Katerina N. Sakellaropoulou was born in Thessaloniki in 1956.

She graduated from Arsakeio and holds a degree from the Law School of the
University of Athens (1978). She was appointed to the Council of State, following a competition, as a Rapporteur in
1982 and was promoted to Associate Judge in 1988 and to Counsel in 2000. She served as
Associate Judge in the Third Division and as Counselor in the Fifth Division of the Court.

As part of her educational leave (1987-1988), she attended postgraduate
courses in public law in France at the University of Paris II. In 2015, she was promoted to Vice-President and served in the Third Chamber. In 2018, she was elected the first female President of the Court, a position she held until
February 2020. She served as President of the Association of Judicial Officers of the Court (1993-
1995 and 2000-2001) and President of the Environmental Law Society (2015-
2019).

She taught for many years at the National School of Judicial Officers. On January 22, 2020, she was elected by the Hellenic Parliament as the first female President of the Hellenic Republic and took office on March 13. Her term ended on March 12, 2025. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Law School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2021), the Department of Environment of the Ionian University (2022), the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the School of Economics and Political Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2022), the Department of Political Science of the School of Social, Political, and Economic Sciences of the Democritus University of Thrace (2023), the School of Social Sciences and Education Sciences of the University of Cyprus (2024) and the Department of Philosophy of the School of Philosophy of the University of Crete (2024). He has written a series of articles on topics mainly related to environmental and spatial planning law, gender equality, the protection of individual rights, and the establishment of the rule of law.