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Commission de gestion du Pouvoir judiciaire
Secrétariat général du Pouvoir judiciaire
Case postale 3966
1211 Genève 3
Competences
The Commission de gestion:
- Sets the four-year financial planning of the Judiciary Power, its multi-annual investment planning and its annual budget proposal.
- Establishes the multi-annual strategic plan of the Judiciary Power and monitors its implementation.
- Approves risk mapping and monitors its development.
- Allocates resources to the jurisdictions and support directorates, decides in particular on their staffing and defines their qualifications.
- Determines the policies of the Judiciary Power with regard to human resources, information and communication systems, logistics, security and communication.
- Adopts the regulations and directives necessary for the proper functioning of the Judiciary Power.
- Supervises the management of projects involving major issues for the Judiciary Power.
- Adopts a position on parliamentary matters pertaining to the Judiciary Power, in particular on draft laws and regulations during federal and cantonal consultations.
- Appoints the secretary general of the Judiciary Power.
- Supervises the operations of the offices, the Office of the Secretary General and the support directorates.
- Organises the internal oversight, the management control and the Audit interne of Judiciary Power.
- Validates the election of the jurisdiction presidents.
- Represents the Judiciary Power during its interactions with the political authorities.
Organization and membership
The Commission de gestion is made up of the following members:
- The attorney general, who presides over it
- A permanent magistrate of a civil court
- A permanent magistrate of a criminal court
- A permanent magistrate of a public law court
- A member of staff
- An alternate member of staff
Permanent judges who are members of the Commission de gestion are elected by the Conférence des président·e·s de juridiction for a 3-year term, renewable once.
The staff member and alternate member are elected by the staff of the Judiciary Power, also for a 3-year term.
The secretary general of the Judiciary Power sits on the Commission de gestion and has an optional vote.
Members
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 and 2020. Mr. Olivier Jornot has been leading the Ministère public since April 2012, a jurisdiction that now includes 48 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.
Mrs. Milena Guglielmetti has obtained her Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Geneva, a lawyer's licence as well as a Diploma of Advanced Studies in judiciary from the University of Neuchâtel. After working as a lawyer, she joined the Cantonal Parliament as assistant to the sautier (Secretary of the parliament) of the Republic and Canton of Geneva. In 2004, she joined the Ministère public as a substitute. In 2007 she was elected as judge of the Tribunal civil, where she still sits today. Mrs. Milena GUGLIELMETTI has been a member of the Commission de gestion since January 1, 2021.
Mr. Endi Gega has obtained a master's degree in law from the University of Geneva. He continued his training as a trainee lawyer in the Finance Department of the City of Geneva and with a Geneva law firm. He was admitted to the Bar in the same town. Mr. Endi Gega worked for several years as a freelance clerk at the Tribunal des prud’hommes. He continued his career with a private bank in Geneva, before working as a partner in a law firm, until he joined the judiciary. On July 1, 2013, Mr. Gega joined the Public Prosecutor's Office as a prosecutor, before taking up the position of half-time judge at the Tribunal administratif de première instance in June 2022. Since April 1, 2023, he has been a judge at the Tribunal pénal.
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.