Judith Skudelny (born 2 October 1975) is a German lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg from 2009 till 2013 and since 2017.[1]
Judith Skudelny | |
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.jpg) Judith Skudelny in 2015 | |
| Member of the Bundestag | |
| Assumed office 2017 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 October 1975 Stuttgart, West Germany (now Germany) |
| Political party | FDP |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | University of Tübingen |
Early life and career
editAfter graduating from high school in Stuttgart-Möhringen in 1995, Skudelny studied law at the University of Tübingen, which she completed with the first state examination in 1999. Afterwards, she spent a year as a personal advisor to Ulrich Noll, a member of the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg. After her second state examination, she was admitted to the bar in 2003 and has since been working as a lawyer specialising in reorganisation and insolvency law.
Political career
editFrom 2009 until 2013, Skudelny served as a member of the Bundestag for the first time. During that time, she was a member of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.
Skudelny became a member of the Bundestag again after the 2017 German federal election. She has since been a member of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety again. She serves as her parliamentary group's spokesperson on environmental policy.[2]
In addition, Skudelny is a substitute member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection and the Committee on the Election of Judges (Wahlausschuss), which is in charge of appointing judges to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.[3]
Following the 2021 state elections in Baden-Württemberg, Skudelny was part of her party's delegation in the negotiations with Minister-President Winfried Kretschmann's Alliance '90/Greens on a potential coalition government.[4]
In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the FDP following the 2021 German elections, Skudelny was part of her party's delegation in the working group on environmental policy, co-chaired by Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter, Steffi Lemke and Stefan Birkner.[5]
Other activities
edit- Amnesty International, Member
References
edit- ^ "Judith Skudelny | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 16 March 2020.
- ^ "Fachpolitische Sprecher". Fraktion der Freien Demokraten im Deutschen Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 16 March 2020.
- ^ "Deutscher Bundestag - Ausschuss für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 16 March 2020.
- ^ Landtagswahl in Baden-Württemberg 2021: So sind die Karten vor den Sondierungsgesprächen gemischt Archived 12 April 2021 at the Wayback Machine Südwestrundfunk, March 16, 2021.
- ^ Britt-Marie Lakämper (October 21, 2021), SPD, Grüne, FDP: Diese Politiker verhandeln die Ampel-Koalition Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.
External links
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- Official website (in German)
- Bundestag biography (in German)
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