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Jutta Limbach took her Ph.D. and qualified as a university lecturer after studying jurisprudence at Berlin’s Free University where she then went on to hold a professorship in the jurisprudence department. Since 1987, she has been a board member at the Society for Legislation, from 1987-89 she was a member of the Academic Advisory Council on Family Matters for the Federal Ministry for Youth, Family, Women and Health. From 1989 to 1994, Jutta Limbach worked as justice senator for the Federal State of Berlin and from 1992-93, she was a member of the Joint Constitutional Commission of the Bundesrat and Bundestag – upper and lower houses of the German parliament. In March 1994, she was appointed to the Federal Constitutional Court, first as vice-president and then president. On 17 January 2002, she was elected president of the Goethe-Institut.