Oleksandr Lavrynovych

Oleksandr Lavrynovych
Олександр Лавринович
Lavrynovych in 2013
Supreme Council of Justice Chairperson
In office
July 02, 2013  April 10, 2014
Preceded byVolodymyr Kolechnychenko
Succeeded byIhor Benedysyuk
12th Minister of Justice of Ukraine
In office
March 11, 2010  July 02, 2013
Prime MinisterMykola Azarov
Preceded byMykola Onishchuk
Succeeded byOlena Lukash
In office
January 11, 2006  December 18, 2007
Preceded byRoman Zvarych
Succeeded byMykola Onishchuk
In office
November 21, 2002  January 5, 2005
Prime MinisterAnatoliy Kinakh
Viktor Yanukovych
Preceded bySyuzanna Stanik
Succeeded byRoman Zvarych
First Deputy Chairman of
the Verkhovna Rada
In office
September 2, 2008  March 11, 2010
Preceded byAdam Martynyuk
Succeeded byAdam Martynyuk
2nd convocation
In office
May 11, 1994  May 12, 1998
DeputyPeople's Deputy of Ukraine
ConstituencyPeople's Movement of Ukraine, Lviv Oblast, District No.274
3rd convocation
In office
May 12, 1998  October 18, 2001
ConstituencyPeople's Movement of Ukraine, Lviv Oblast, No.121
6th convocation
In office
November 23, 2007  March 11, 2010
ConstituencyIndependent, No.67
7th convocation
In office
December 12, 2012  December 25, 2012
ConstituencyParty of Regions, No.12
Personal details
Born (1956-06-28) June 28, 1956
Ovruch, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine)
Political partyUnaffiliated
Other political
affiliations
People's Movement of Ukraine
SpouseSvitlana Hryhorivna (b. 1956)
ChildrenMaksym (b. 1978), Vitaliy (b. 1983)
Alma materKyiv University (1978)
Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (1987)
Yaroslav the Wise Law Academy (1998)
Institute of State and Law (2001)
OccupationPensioner

Oleksandr Volodymyrovych Lavrynovych (Ukrainian: Олександр Володимирович Лавринович; born June 28, 1956) is a Ukrainian physicist, lawyer, politician, former member of the Supreme Council of Justice of Ukraine, a former Ukrainian member of parliament and former Minister of Justice of Ukraine. He is a Merited Jurist of Ukraine (2003). He was one of the founders of the first democratic party in Ukraine in 1989 – People's Movement of Ukraine and considered to be one of the "fathers" of the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union.