Vasyl Onopenko

Vasyl Onopenko
Vasyl Onopenko
Василь Онопенко
	Official portrait, 2006
Chairman of the Supreme Court of Ukraine
	In office; 2 October 2006 – 29 September 2011
President	Viktor Yushchenko
Preceded by	Vasyl Malyarenko
Succeeded by	Petro Pylypchuk
People's Deputy of Ukraine
	In office; 12 May 1998 – 5 October 2006
Constituency	SDPU(o), No. 3 (1998–2002); Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, No. 4 (2002–2006);
Minister of Justice
	In office; 27 October 1992 – 7 August 1995
President	Leonid Kravchuk; Leonid Kuchma;
Prime Minister	Leonid Kuchma; Vitaliy Masol;
Preceded by	Volodymyr Kampo
Succeeded by	Serhiy Holovatyi
Personal details
Born	10 April 1949; Velyki Kryshlentsi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Political party	Independent (1998, 2002, since 2012)
Other political; affiliations	Party of Human Rights (1994–1995); Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) (1995–1998); Ukrainian Social Democratic Party (1998–2012); Batkivshchyna (1999–2002); Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (2002–2006);
Alma mater	Kharkiv Law Institute
Occupation	Jurist, politician

Vasyl Vasylovych Onopenko (Ukrainian: Василь Васильович Онопенко; born 10 April 1949) is a Ukrainian judge and politician who served as chairman of the Supreme Court of Ukraine from 2006 to 2011. Prior to this, he served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 1998 to 2006, as Minister of Justice from 1992 to 1995, and as a judge of the Supreme Court of Ukraine within the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991.