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Nicole MAESTRACCI

Appointed on 12 February 2013 by the President of the Republic

Took the oath of office on 14 March 2013 before the President of the Republic

Born 3 February 1951, in Paris (17th arrondissement)

Education

  • Specialised graduate degree in private law
  • French professional lawyer's certification (Certificat d'Aptitude à la Profession d'Avocat, CAPA)
  • École nationale de la magistrature

Career

  • 1974/1977 : Lawyer at the Paris bar
  • 1977/1979 : Court Auditor
  • 1979/1983 : Juvenile court judge at the Melun district court (Tribunal de grande instance, Seine-et-Marne department)
  • 1983/1984 : Judge responsible for sentence enforcement at the Paris district court (Tribunal de grande instance)
  • 1984/1987 : Chief of the community participation office, head of the prison administration at the Ministry of Justice
  • 1987/1988 : Technical advisor to the inter-ministerial delegate for road safety at the French Ministry of Equipment
  • 1988/1990 : Technical adviser to the office of the Minister of Justice
  • 1991/1992 : Secretary to the Research council and head of a research reorganisation mission at the Ministry of Justice
  • 1992/1996 : Vice President of the Bobigny district court (Tribunal de grande instance, Seine-Saint-Denis department)
  • 1996/1998 : Counsellor on the Court of Appeal of Paris
  • 1998/2002 : President of the inter-ministerial mission on the fight against drugs and drug addiction (mission interministérielle de lutte contre la drogue et la toxicomanie, Mildt) and rapporteur general of the inter-ministerial committee on the fight against drugs and drug addiction
  • 2013/2011 : Chamber president at the Court of Appeal of Paris
  • 2003/2010 : President of the Melun district court (Tribunal de grande instance, Seine-et-Marne department)
  • 2004/2012 : President of the French national federation of reception and social integration associations (Fédération nationale des associations d'accueil et de réinsertion sociale, FNARS)
  • 2006 : President of the organisation committee and of the jury for the public hearing on the management of psychopathy, under the responsibility of the French high authority for health (Haute Autorité de Santé)
  • 2007/2013 : Member (for legal entities contributing to integration and the fight against exclusion) of the French national council of policies in the fight against poverty and social exclusion (Conseil national des politiques de lutte contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale)
  • 2007 : President of the organisation committee for the conference of consensus for the homeless
  • 2008 : President of one of the three Grenelle commissions on inclusion, organised by the French high commissioner for active solidarity (Haut Commissariat aux Solidarités actives)
  • 2009 : Member of the Commission for youth policy dialogue, chaired by Martin Hirsch
  • 2010 : Member of the French national committee for sustainable development and the Grenelle environmental legislation
  • 2011/2013 : First president of the Court of Appeal of Rouen (Seine-Maritime department)
  • 2012 : President of the organisation committee for the conference of consensus for the fight against re-offending, organised by the Minister of Justice
  • 2012/2013 : President of the board of directors of the French national public health authority (Etablissement public de santé national) in Fresnes
  • 2013, 14 March (since): Member of the Constitutional Council appointed by the President of the Republic, François Hollande

Publications:

  • "La pauvreté: une question politique", Revue Esprit 2012
  • "Le non-recours aux droits: un enjeu qui oblige les acteurs à changer leurs pratiques", Revue de droit sanitaire et social, July 2012
  • "Santé publique et tabac", La lettre du collège de France, February 2010
  • "L'évolution des politiques publiques de lutte contre la drogue: des aveuglements aux prises de conscience.",Archives de politique criminelle no. 31, October 2009
  • Preface to "Prison et récidive" by Annie Kensey, Armand Colin, 2007
  • "Propositions pour une réorganisation de la recherche», in Quelles perspectives pour la recherche juridique?, PUF, 2007
  • "Alcool, violence et justice: des liaisons dangereuses et encore mal évaluées.", Revue alcoologie et addictologie, décembre 2006
  • "Le malaise du travail social", in La France Invisible, La découverte, 2006
  • "La prise en charge des psychopathes", Rapport de l'audition publique, Haute Autorité de Santé, 2005
  • "Les Drogues", PUF, "Que sais je ?", 2005
  • "Les mécomptes de la drogue", Revue Projet, September 2004
  • "Drogue et toxicomanie: quelle politique?", Revue Esprit, 2001
  • "Une nouvelle approche des conduites addictives", Revue d'épidémiologie et de santé publique, 1999
  • "Drogues et prévention des dépendances: une nouvelle approche", Actualité et dossier en santé publique, 1999