Head of Greece's top administrative court nominated for next president

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis nominated Katerina Sakellaropoulou, a female top judge, for the country's next president, in a televised address on the state-run broadcaster ERT on Wednesday evening.
Sakellaropoulou is the current president of the Council of State, the country's top administrative court.

If her candidacy is approved by Parliament, she will be the first female president in Greece's history and will replace incumbent Prokopis Pavlopoulos, whose term expires in March. 

Skellaropoulou was born in Thessaloniki in 1956 and graduated from the Faculty of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 1978. In 1982 she was appointed as Assistant Judge at the Supreme Administrative Court (Council of State).

In 1988 she was promoted to Associate Councilor and served at the Third Chamber of the Court. In 2000 she was promoted to...