Gordana Tadić elected Chief Prosecutor of the BiH Prosecutor's Office

SARAJevo, (Patria) - After discussion and voting, members of the HJPC decided that Gordana Tadić is the new chief state prosecutor. Tadić was elected with nine votes "for", two against, and two abstentions. She takes over the six-year term on February 1, 2019.

Since September 29, 2016, Gordana Tadić has been performing the duties of the acting Chief Prosecutor of the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, by the Decision of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

She was appointed Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina in July 2014, and prior to that, she served as Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the Cantonal Prosecutor's Office of Tuzla Canton from the beginning of 2012 to the end of 2013. She served as a prosecutor at the Cantonal Prosecutor's Office of Tuzla Canton from 2003 to 2011 in the Department for Economic Crime, Corruption, and Tax Evasion. From 1997 to 2003, she served as Deputy Municipal Prosecutor in Živinice and worked on all types of cases within the jurisdiction of the municipal prosecutor's office. She worked as a legal associate at the Municipal Prosecutor's Office in Živinice from the beginning of 1996 to the beginning of 1997, and from mid-1995 to the end of the same year, she worked as a legal associate at the Municipal Court in Živinice, in the civil litigation department. From August 5, 1985, to mid-1995, she worked as an independent legal clerk performing all types of legal work at the "Đurđevik" Lignite Mine. She graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Sarajevo in 1985, and passed the bar exam in 1995.

She was appointed Deputy Head of the Special Department for War Crimes of the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Head of Department I on February 19, 2014, from which time she managed the Special Department for War Crimes in the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina. She was appointed Head of the Special Department for War Crimes on August 25, 2014, after being elected Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina.