The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) elected Professor Anja Seibert-Fohr as new judge to the European Court of Human Rights on 27 July 2019. Her term of nine years commenced on 1 January 2020. Professor Anja Seibert-Fohr succeeds Professor Angelika Nußberger who has been serving as judge at the European Court of Human Rights for Germany since 2011. Seibert-Fohr was a member of the Human Rights Committee from 2013 to 2017. Since 2016, she has held the chair of Public Law, International Law and Human Rights at the University of Heidelberg.