Arya Raelenthur

Arya Raelenthur
President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Delkora
Incumbent
Assumed office 25 September 2012
Preceded by	Edvard Kaldengaard
Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court
In office 24 April 2007 – Present
Judge of the Vassengaard Federal Court of Appeals
In office 3 October 2003 – 24 April 2007
Judge of the Tordenhelm Federal Judicial District
In office 21 May 1994 – 3 October 2003
Personal details
Born	Arya Ellinor Raelenthur (1960-08-10)10 August 1960 Tordenhelm, Vassengaard, Kingdom of Delkora
Nationality	Delkoran
Political party	Nonpartisan
Spouse(s)	Kirsten Raelenthur (m. 1988–Present)
Alma mater	Tordenhelm University (B.L.) University of Norenstal (M.L.) Gothendral University (D.L.)
Occupation	Jurist

Arya Ellinor Raelenthur is the President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Delkora, having assumed the position in 2012 following the retirement of Edvard Kaldengaard. A distinguished jurist, she has published numerous books and articles on Delkoran law and is considered one of the most influential figures in Delkoran legal theory in recent history.

Early life and education

Raelenthur was born in Tordenhelm in 1960 to Edgar and Ellinor Raelenthur. Her father died while Raelenthur was still young, and her mother struggled to make ends meet by working various odd jobs, resulting in the family being intermittently homeless until Raelenthur was 12, at which point her mother was able to secure training and steady employment as an electrician through the recently-established Public Works Commission. After excelling in secondary school and graduating at the top of her class, Raelenthur was accepted into Tordenhelm University in 1977, where she studied political science and law. After graduating in 1980, she began studying for her Master of Laws at the University of Norenstal, during which time she also worked as an intern for Edvard Kaldengaard, then a justice of the Federal Administrative Court who Raelenthur would later succeed as President of the Federal Constitutional Court.

Upon attaining her M.L. in 1983, Raelenthur relocated to Gothendral, where she volunteered with various legal aid clinics in low income neighborhoods throughout the city. During this time she also pursued a Doctor of Laws at the University of Gothendral, publishing a dissertation entitled Pre-Modern Delkoran Customary Law and the Constitutional Right to Freedom of Movement in 1987.

Civil rights prosecutor

After receiving her D.L., Raelenthur returned to Tordenhelm, where she took a job with the Civil Rights Division of the Federal Prosecution Authority. In 1989, her office brought charges against several high profile landlords in the city for severe property maintenance violations she argued represented "a substantial and negligent threat to tenants' safety and well being" in violation of federal housing laws. In 1992, she led a successful prosecution of a Federal Border Guard supervisor for failing to provide an interpreter to a detained Svinian migrant who was later deported.

Judicial career

In 1994, Raelenthur was nominated by Chancellor Emma Jørgensen to fill a vacancy in the Tordenhelm Federal Judicial District. After receiving unanimous support from both chambers of the Federal Parliament, she was sworn in later that year. As a trial judge, Raelenthur was known to be fair and unbiased, holding the government to account and handing down well-reasoned sentences. In 2003, she was nominated by Kol Vossgaard to serve on the Vassengaard Federal Court of Appeals, where she honed her reputation as a brilliant jurist. In criminal cases, she was often the deciding vote in favor of reducing a sentence or vacating a conviction.

After a surprise vacancy opened up on the Federal Constitutional Court in 2007, Chancellor Harald Møller nominated Raelenthur. Prominent cases she has participated in have included Opinions she authored were known to be relatively short and succinct in comparison to the often verbose opinions of her peers on the court.

In 2012, after Justice Edvard Kaldengaard stepped down from the Court, Raelenthur was elected by her fellow justices to succeed him as president.