Members
The President and other members (justices) of the Supreme Court are appointed by the President of the Republic. As of 1 January 2006 the President is Pauliine Koskelo, the first woman in the office.
The justices of the Supreme Court have usually earlier experience from different branches of the legal profession, most often in courts of law, but also in the drafting of legislation, academic positions and as legal practitioners.
According to law, the Supreme Court shall have a President and at least 15 members. At present the Court consists of 18 members. The average age of the current justices, while having been appointed, is 48. As well as in elsewhere in Finnish worklife, the justices are required to retire at the age of 68. Otherwise, they enjoy the constitutional right to remain in office, unless they are impeached by the High Court of Impeachment or found medically incapable by the Supreme Court. The referendaries enjoy a similar constitutional right to remain in office, but their work-related offences are handled by the Court of Appeals of Helsinki, instead of the High Court of Impeachment.
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