Lord Chief Justice

Oleksandr Tupitskiy

Rt. Hon. Lord Tupitskiy of Biloziria
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The Rt. Hon. The Lord Tupitskiy of Biloziria MCC, Chief Justice of the Commonwealth, was born on January 28, 1963 in the village of Biloziria, Cherkasy district, Cherkasy region.

After graduating from high school, he did military service.

He worked as a milling machine at the Smila radio equipment plant and at the Strommashina plant in Cherkasy.

In 1988, he graduated from the Kharkiv Law Institute named after F.E. Dzerzhinsky.

In 1988–1989, he was an intern at the Prosecutor's Office of Donetsk, an investigator, a senior investigator at the Prosecutor's Office of the Kuibyshev district of Donetsk.

From 1993 to 2010, he was a judge of the Kuibyshev district court of Donetsk, from 2002 to 2009, he was the chairman of this court.

From October to December 2010, he was a judge of the Donetsk Commercial Court of Appeal. He was elected a member of the Qualification and Disciplinary Commission of the Donetsk Oblast Bar Association and a member of the Council of Judges of the Donetsk Oblast.

From 2010 to 2012, he was a judge, head of the Lviv Commercial Court of Appeal.

From 2012 to 2013, he was a judge, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Commercial Court of Appeal.

In May 2013, the President of Ukraine appointed him a judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine. He took the oath on May 15, 2013.

On March 15, 2018, at a special plenary session of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, Oleksandr Mykolayovych Tupytskyi was elected Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine.

On September 17, 2019, at a special plenary session of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, he was elected as the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine.

From December 30, 2020, he chairs the committee on judicial reform.

From March 2, 2021, he is a member of the Supreme Congress.

On August 17, 2022, Tupitskiy was made a peer and nominated to be Chief Justice of the Commonwealth.

He was awarded the Certificate of Honor of the State Judicial Administration of Ukraine, the anniversary badge of the Higher Economic Court of Ukraine 20 years of the Economic Courts of Ukraine, thanks from the Higher Qualification Commission of Ukraine and the National School of Judges of Ukraine, the award of the Higher Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine - the Justice badge.

Candidate of Sciences in Public Administration.

The author of a number of publications on the constitutional reform on the improvement of the judicial system.