Miroslava Geč Korošec (28 February 1939,

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- July 19, 2002, Piran) was a Slovenian

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and

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. Between 1968 and 1971, she held the position of a judge at the Municipal Court in

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, later at the Municipal Court in Maribor. In 1998, she became the first judge of the

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, where she worked until retirement in 2000.

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