Commission de gestion du Pouvoir judiciaire

Mr. Olivier Jornot holds a Master of Arts degree and a Master of Law degree both awarded by the University of Geneva. He has obtained his lawyer's licence in 1996, profession that he practiced with various Geneva-based law firms between 1997 and 2012. He has also been involved in politics since 1995, in parallel with his professional activity, first as a communal councillor of the commune of Veyrier and then as member of the cantonal parliament since 2005. He was elected as Attorney General in December 2011 and re-elected to this function in 2014, in 2020 and in 2026. Mr. Olivier Jornot has been leading the Ministère public since April 2012, a jurisdiction that now includes 50 public prosecutors and chief public prosecutors. Since then, he has chaired the Commission de gestion du Pouvoir judiciaire. He is also an ex officio member of the Conseil supérieur de la magistrature and the Conférence des président·e·s de juridiction.

After studying law in Geneva and Germany (Bonn), Mr. Cédric-Laurent Michel was admitted to the Geneva Bar in 1991. He worked for various banks and practiced as a barrister before before being elected as a magistrate when he was 28 years old and took up his post on 1st  February 1995 at the Chambre des tutelles.

After a period in the instruction jurisdiction, he was elected to the Tribunal de première instance in 1998, where he sat on the Tribunal de police and the Tribunal des baux et loyers for 4 years, before returning to a civil division of the said Court.

Elected President of the Tribunal de première instance from 2003 to 2006, he also co-chaired the Commission cantonale de recours en matière de constructions for eight years and sat on the Commission de conciliation des baux et loyers.

He also served for 9 years on the Conseil supérieur de la magistrature and for three years on the Commission de gestion of the Pouvoir judiciaire. He chaired the Chambre de surveillance of the Tribunal de protection de l’adulte et de l’enfant from 2016 to 2025.

After serving for 12 years as a judge at the Cour de justice, he was elected President of the Cour de justice on 20 November 2024 and, in that capacity, has since chaired the Conseil supérieur de la magistrature.

Mrs. Séverine Stalder has obtained a law degree from the University of Neuchâtel and is a member of the Bar. She began her career as an investigator with the Commission fédérale des maisons de jeu à Berne (the Federal Gaming Board in Bern), before joining the Jura cantonal police as a commissioner and police officer.

In 2009, she became an investigating judge in the canton of Jura, and then a public prosecutor in 2011. She was appointed Attorney General of the canton of Jura in 2013.

Elected public prosecutor in Geneva in December 2014, Mrs. Séverine Stalder was appointed first public prosecutor in September 2017, before joining the Tribunal des mineurs on 1 November 2024.

Mr. Patrick Chenaux holds a law degree from the University of Lausanne and a lawyer's licence. He joined the magistrates' service in July 2001 as a deputy public prosecutor. As from June 2002, he served as a judge at the Tribunal de première instance (including at the Tribunal de police), then at the Tribunal civil, court over which he presided from 2011 to 2013.

On the 1st of June 2014, Mr. Chenaux has taken up his duties as judge at the Cour de justice, sitting at the Cour civile. He was elected as vice-président of the Cour civile of the Cour de justice on the 1st of October 2016, until the end of his second mandate, on  September 30, 2022.

Mrs. Lucile Baudier holds a degree in archaeology from the Université Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne. She then chose to complete her training in the legal field at the Ecole Nationale de Droit et Procédure, from which she graduated in 2011. She began her career as a legal assistant, then as a junior lawyer in a Paris law firm specializing in inter-company litigation. En 2012, she joined a Geneva law firm as a legal assistant, before joining the Judiciary on November 1. 2013. She joined the Public Prosecutor's Office as a clerk, a position she has held ever since.

She has also been a member of the Association des fonctionnaires et employés du Pouvoir judiciaire (AFEPJ), since 2019.

Mrs. Nathalie Deschamps holds a CFC for commercial employees. She began her career with the Administration fiscale cantonale as a real estate tax assessor for four years. After a further four years as a secretary at Collège Calvin, she was employed by a medical-social establishment as an accounting secretary, before joining the Judiciary Power on October 1, 1995. Promoted after two years to clerk at the Cour de Justice, she had worked for the Cour civile for nineteen years, before continuing her career at the Cour de droit public since 2015.

She is also a member of the Association des fonctionnaires et employés du Pouvoir judiciaire (AFEPJ).

Mr. Patrick Becker has obtained a Master of Law degree from the University of Fribourg in 1998 and a Certificate of Advanced Studies from the Graduate Institute of Public Administration in 2010. He joined the Judiciary Power as a temporary jurist of the former Labour Court where he successively held the positions of jurist, deputy director and director. He joined the Office of the Secretary General in 2008, as deputy secretary in charge of media and institutional relations, then, from December 2009 as Deputy Secretary General. He was appointed Secretary General of the Judiciary Power with effect from January 2011 by the Commission de gestion du Pouvoir judiciaire upon the recommendation of the Conférence des président·e·s de juridiction.