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 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.

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.

Mrs. Séverine Stalder will become a member of the Commission de gestion since 1 January 2025.

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.

Mr. Patrick Chenaux has sat on the Commission de gestion since 1 November 2024.

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. Lucile Baudier has sat on the Commission de gestion since 1 March 2024.

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.