The chief justice of the Supreme Court of Korea (Korean: 대법원장; Hanja: 大法院長; RR: Daebeobwonjang) is the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Korea.
As presiding judge of the grand bench composed of two-thirds of fourteen Supreme Court justices, the chief represents the Supreme Court of Korea. The chief justice is regarded as one of two equivalent heads of judicial branch in Government of South Korea. Another head is the president of the Constitutional Court of Korea. The current chief justice of the Supreme Court of Korea is vacant and Supreme Court Justice Ahn Chul-sang is acting as the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Korea.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Korea | |
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대한민국 대법원장 | |
Supreme Court of Korea | |
Style | Mr Chief Justice (informal) Your Honor (within the court) |
Status | Chief Justice |
Member of | Council of Supreme Court Justices |
Residence | Daebeobwonjang Gonggwan |
Seat | Seoul, South Korea |
Appointer | President (Subject to the National Assembly's approval) |
Term length | Six years, non renewable |
Constituting instrument | Constitution of South Korea |
Inaugural holder | Kim Byung-ro |
Formation | 5 August 1948 |
Website | Official english website |
Under chapter 5, article 104(1) of Constitution, and article 12(1) of Court Organization Act, the chief justice is appointed by the president of South Korea with the consent of the National Assembly of South Korea.
While article 105(1) of Constitution sets term length of the chief justice as non-renewable single term of six-years, its mandatory age of retirement is delegated to sub-constitutional regulation by article 105(4) of Constitution. Currently, the chief justice's mandatory age of retirement is 70 by article 45(4) of Court Organization Act.
As head member of the Supreme Court of Korea, the chief justice's formal main role is participating in decision of the Court as one of Supreme Court Justices. However, since most of cases in the Court are handled by three different panels or 'petty benches'(Korean: 소부) each of consisting four Supreme Court justices except the chief justice, the chief cannot participate in ruling of daily cases. Rather, the chief justice only participates in 'crand bench(Korean: 전원합의체)' convened with more than two-thirds of all fourteen Justices, as presiding judge.
A more substantial role of the chief justice is governing political and administrative tasks in ordinary courts, as the chief is head of hierarchy of conventional judiciary consisted of all ordinary courts in South Korea.
No. | Name | Tenure | Appointed by | Education | |
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1 | Kim Byung-ro | 5 August 1948 | 14 December 1957 | Rhee Syng-man | Nihon University |
2 | Cho Young-sun | 9 June 1958 | 10 May 1960 | Gyeongseong Law College | |
3 | Cho Jin-man | 30 June 1961 | January 1964 | (Elected among Judges) | Keijō Imperial University |
4 | January 1964 | 19 October 1968 | Park Chung Hee | ||
5 | Min Bok-ki | 21 October 1968 | March 1973 | Keijō Imperial University | |
6 | 14 March 1973 | 21 December 1978 | |||
7 | Yi Young-sup | 22 March 1979 | 15 April 1981 | Keijō Imperial University | |
8 | Yoo Tai-heung | 16 April 1981 | 15 April 1986 | Chun Doo-hwan | Kansai University |
9 | Kim Yong-chul | 16 April 1986 | 19 June 1988 | Seoul National University | |
10 | Lee Il-kyu | 6 July 1988 | 15 December 1990 | Roh Tae-woo | Kansai University |
11 | Kim Deok-ju | 16 December 1990 | 10 September 1993 | Seoul National University | |
12 | Yun Kwan | 25 September 1993 | 24 September 1999 | Kim Young-sam | Yonsei University |
13 | Choi Jong-young | 25 September 1999 | 24 September 2005 | Kim Dae-jung | Seoul National University |
14 | Lee Yong-hoon | 25 September 2005 | 24 September 2011 | Roh Moo-hyun | Seoul National University |
15 | Yang Sung-tae | 25 September 2011 | 24 September 2017 | Lee Myung-bak | Seoul National University |
16 | Kim Myeong-su | 25 September 2017 | 24 September 2023 | Moon Jae-in | Seoul National University |
- | Ahn Chul-sang (Acting Président of the Supreme Court) | 24 September 2023 | 7 December 2023 | Takes up the position following the resignation of Chief Justice Kim Myeong-su | Konkuk University |
17 | Cho Hee-dae | 8 December 2023 | Currently | Yoon Suk-yeol | Seoul National University |
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