Female justice ministers

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 2022

President of Finland from 2000 to 2012 (born 1943)

Prime Minister of Denmark since 2019

46th President of Costa Rica

19th Prime Minister of Canada in 1993

Israeli politician, former Israeli Foreign Minister and former leader of the Coalition: Zionist Union together with Isaac Herzog from 2015 to 2019

prime minister of Barbados since 2018

politician and former member of the Swiss Federal Council

French politician and magistrate

Finnish politician

Swiss lawyer and politician

Swiss politician

Polish political figure, Prime Minister of Poland

French politician

former Attorney General of the United States (1938-2016)

UK lawyer and politician

Israeli politician, activist and engineer (born 1976)

Gambian lawyer and judge, Chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (2012–2021)

Senegalese prime minister

French politician

German politician (born 1965)

Czech politician, businesswoman, jurist and university teacher (born 1964)

American attorney (born 1959)

German politician

Prime Minister of Sri Lanka

Dutch politician (born 1977)

Finnish politician

Tanzanian politician and UN Deputy-Secretary General

European Commissioner and former Deputy PM and minister in Bulgaria

Norwegian writer, lawyer and politician

Austrian lawyer and politician

Norwegian politician (born 1977)

German politician

Judit Varga is a Hungarian lawyer and retired politician who served as Minister of Justice of Hungary from her appointment in July 2019, until her resignation in June 2023. In the 2022 Hungarian parliamentary election, she was elected to the National Assembly.

Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine

Shabana Mahmood is a British politician and barrister who has been serving as Home Secretary since 2025. She previously served as Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor from 2024 to 2025. A member of the Labour Party, she has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Ladywood since 2010. Mahmood identifies as belonging to the more socially conservative Blue Labour faction of the Labour Party.

Swiss politician

Filipino politician

member of the Swiss Federal Council (1936–2023)

Latvian politician and diplomat (born 1963)

New Zealand politician (born 1959)

American lawyer, 36th United States Deputy Attorney General

Dutch politician

German politician (FDP) and former federal Minister of Justice

Japanese politician

Swedish politician and jurist

Bulgarian jurist and politician

Spanish prosecutor and politician

Peruvian lawyer and politician

Guatemalan judge

Flemish politician (born 1962)

Luxembourgish politician (1937-2026)

Spanish judge and politician

Danish politician

Kenyan politician

Romanian politician

Danish politician

Armenian politician

Northern Irish politician (born 1971)

Speaker of the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo