Hatidža Hadžiosmanović (19 August 1938 – 23 December 2015) was a Bosnian judge, member and president of the

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Biography

Born in

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, Hadžiosmanović graduated from the Sarajevo Law School on 30 June 1962. She passed the

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in 1967 with excellent results. In 1957–67 she headed the legal office of the Sarajevo Tobacco Factory. Thereafter and until 2002 she held office as a judge of various regular courts: Municipal Court I Sarajevo (1967–71); District Court of Sarajevo (currently Cantonal Court of Sarajevo) (1972–88); the Supreme Court of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1988 to 1992; the Supreme Court of the

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in 1992–1995, and then the Supreme Court of the

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. On 30 June 2002, she was appointed by the Federation entity parliament as judge of the

. In June 2006 she was appointed President of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. She retired at age 70 in 2008. Hadžiosmanović-Mahić dedicated her entire professional career to the law and its theoretical and practical application in economy as well as dealing with first-instance, second-instance, appellate, cassation and constitutional judicature. She died on 23 December 2015, aged 77.

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Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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