Barbara Brezigar

Barbara Brezigar, born Gregorin ( born December 1, 1953 in Ljubljana) is a Slovenian lawyer and politician. She is currently the Attorney General of Slovenia.

Life

Barbara Gregorin attended high school Bežigrad in Ljubljana and studied after high school law at the University of Ljubljana, where she completed her degree in 1977 relating to motor vehicle insurance. While still a student she married in 1976 the Civil Bogoslav Brezigar.

During her clerkship in Ljubljana they had a son, yet was able to complete her legal ahead of schedule. Afterwards she worked in the prosecutor's office in the District Court of Ljubljana and gave birth to a daughter at this time.

In 1993 she took over to the prosecutor, the head of the Department of General and Economic Affairs ( Oddelek za splošne in gospodarske zadeve ), and a year later became Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions at the Ljubljana District, Tomaž Miklavčič. In 1997 she became a member of the Council of Europe Committee for money laundering and a year later, senior public prosecutor. In 1999, she ran unsuccessfully for the office of Attorney General.

In the short-lived government of Andrej Bajuk in 2000 Barbara Brezigar was Minister of Justice. In 2002, she stood as a candidate in the presidential elections in Slovenia as a party with lots of support for the parties SDS, SLS SKD and NSI, where she was runner-up with 30.8 % of the votes in the first ballot. In the second round, it reached 43.5 % of the vote and defeated her rival candidates Janez Drnovšek.

The government of Janez Janša appointed her in 2004 to Attorney General, as which it has been confirmed by the Slovenian Parliament on 20 May 2005.