Ewa Łętowska
Ewa Łętowska | |
|---|---|
| 1st Ombudsman for Citizen Rights | |
| In office 1 January 1988 – 13 February 1992 | |
| President | Wojciech Jaruzelski Lech Wałęsa |
| Prime Minister | Zbigniew Messner Mieczysław Rakowski Czesław Kiszczak Tadeusz Mazowiecki Jan Krzysztof Bielecki Jan Olszewski |
| Preceded by | Tadeusz Zieliński |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 22 March 1940 Warsaw |
| Education | University of Warsaw |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Awards | Friedrich Ebert Foundation Human Rights Award (1994) Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2011) |
Ewa Łętowska (pronounced: [ˈɛva wɛ̃ˈtɔfska]; born 22 March 1940 in Warsaw) is a Polish lawyer, a specialist in civil law and professor of legal science. Since 1985, she has worked at the Institute of Law of the Polish Academy of Sciences and since 1997, she has been a member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1988, she became the first person to be appointed the Ombudsman for Citizen Rights in Poland. Between 1999 and 2002, she served as a judge at the Supreme Administrative Court of Poland and between 2002 and 2011 as a judge of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal.