In the fourth quarter of 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) underwent a major change of personnel, with a number of Judges and Advocates-General reaching the end of their term of office, being re-elected, or newly appointed.

At the beginning of October 2024, Belgian judge Koen Lenaerts was re-elected by his peers as President of the CJEU for the period from 8 October 2024 to 6 October 2027. Furthermore, German judge Thomas von Danwitz was elected Vice-President of the CJEU, succeeding Lars Bay Larson.

In addition, the following changes took place at the Court of Justice (ECJ):

• The terms of office of five ECJ Judges were renewed, namely those of Constantinos Lycourgos, Jan Passer, Thomas von Danwitz, Ineta Ziemele, Irmantas Jarukaitis, and Andreas Kumin.
• Six new Judges were appointed, namely Bernardus Smulders (the Netherlands, replacing Alexandra Prechal), Masimo Condinanzi (Italy, replacing Lucia Serena Rossi), Fredrik Schalin (Sweden, replacing Nils Wahl), Stéphane Gervasoni (France, replacing Jean-Claude Bonichot), Niels Fenger (Denmark, replacing Lars Bay Larsen) and Ramona Frendo (Malta, replacing Peter George Xuereb).
• The Presidents of the Chambers of five Judges of the ECJ were elected for a period of three years: François Biltgen, Küllike Jürimäe, Constantinos Lycourgos, Irmantas Jarukaitis, and Maria Lourdes Arastey Sahún.

Personnel changes concerning the Advocate-Generals of the ECJ included:

• The term of office of Jean Richard de la Tour was renewed.
• Dean Spielmann (Luxembourg, replacing Anthony Michael Collins), Andrea Biondi (Italy, replacing Giovanni Pitruzzella) and Rimvydas Norkus (Lithuania, replacing Priit Pikamäe) were appointed Advocates-General of the ECJ.
• Maciej Szpunar was re-elected by his peers as First Advocate-General of the ECJ for the period from 8 October 2024 to 6 October 2027.

At the General Court of the EU (GC), the following changes in personnel took place:

• Following the appointment of Dean Spielmann and Fredrik Schalin as Members of the Court of Justice and the end of their term of office at the GC, the Judges of the General Court elected from among their number Roberto Mastroianni (Italy) and Petra Škvařilová-Pelzl (Czechia) as Presidents of Chambers for the period from 9 October 2024 to 31 August 2025.

Furthermore, Hervé Cassagnabere (France, replacing Stéphane Gervasoni) and Raphaël Meyer (Luxembourg, replacing Dean Spielmann) were appointed as Judges of the GC.