Editing European Court of Justice (section)

===President===
The president of the Court of Justice is elected from and by the judges for a renewable term of three years. The president presides over hearings and deliberations, directing both judicial business and administration (for example, the time table of the Court and Grand Chamber). He also assigns cases to the chambers for examination and appoints judge as rapporteurs called [[Judge-Rapporteur]] (reporting judges).<ref>{{cite web |last=Muñoz |first=Susana |title=Organisation of the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance of the European Communities |publisher=[[Centre virtuel de la connaissance sur l'Europe|CVCE]] |url=http://www.cvce.eu/obj/organisation_of_the_community_jurisdictions-en-8032474d-2ac4-4764-b299-5fc0ad597538.html |access-date=19 April 2013}}</ref> The Council may also appoint assistant rapporteurs to assist the president in applications for interim measures and to assist rapporteurs in the performance of their duties.<ref>{{cite web|title=Protocol on the Statute of the Court of Justice, Article 13|publisher=[[European Union]]|date=28 June 2009 |url=http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2008-09/statut_2008-09-25_17-29-58_783.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2008-09/statut_2008-09-25_17-29-58_783.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live}}</ref>

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! {{Abbr|No.|Number}} !! President !! State !! Term
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| 1 || [[Massimo Pilotti]] || {{ITA}} || 1952–1958 
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| 2 || [[Andreas Matthias Donner]] || {{NLD}} || 1958–1964
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| 3 || [[Charles Léon Hammes]] || {{LUX}} || 1964–1967
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| 4 || [[Robert Lecourt]] || {{FRA}} || 1967–1976
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| 5 || [[Hans Kutscher]] || {{FRG}} || 1976–1980 
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| 6 || [[Josse Mertens de Wilmars]] || {{BEL}} || 1980–1984
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| 7 || [[John Mackenzie-Stuart]] || {{GBR}} || 1984–1988
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| 8 || [[Ole Due]] || {{DEN}} || 1988–1994
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| 9 || [[Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias]] || {{ESP}} || 1994–2003
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| 10 || [[Vassilios Skouris]] || {{GRE}} || 2003–2015
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| 11 || [[Koen Lenaerts]] || {{BEL}} || 2015–present
|}