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Dr. Miriam Meßling
Justice of the First Senate
Born in Wuppertal in 1973
Married, two daughters
| 1979-1992 | Attended school in Rome and Witten |
| 1992-1997 | Studied law in Trier and Münster |
| 1997 | First State Examination in Law |
| 1998-1999 | Doctoral studies at the Universities of Münster and Turin |
| 2000-2002 | Legal traineeship in Baden-Württemberg |
| 2001 | Dr. iur., University of Münster; Doctoral thesis: “Die Lösung rechtsgeschäftlicher Bindungen im deutschen und italienischen Privatrecht” (“Release from contractual obligations in German and Italian private law”) |
| 2002 | Second State Examination in Law |
| 2002-2005 | Judicial clerk at the Federal Constitutional Court (Cabinet of Justice Dr. h. c. Renate Jaeger) |
| 2005-2006 | Judge at the Karlsruhe Social Court (Sozialgericht) |
| 2007-2008 | Judge at the Freiburg Social Court |
| 2009-2010 | Seconded as a judicial clerk to the Federal Social Court (Bundessozialgericht) |
| 2011 | Seconded to the Stuttgart Higher Social Court (Landessozialgericht) |
| 2012 | Seconded to the Mannheim Higher Administrative Court (Verwaltungsgerichtshof), simultaneously appointed judge at the Higher Social Court |
| 2013-2016 | Head of a personnel division and the civil service law division at the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Justice |
| 2016-2020 | Judge at the Federal Social Court |
| 2021 | Presiding judge at the Federal Social Court |
| 2022-2023 | Vice-President of the Federal Social Court |
| since April 2023 | Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court |