Career
She worked as a judge in Austria for more than 30 years and has served as Substitute Justice at the Austrian Constitutional Court since 1998. Comprising 23 independent experts, the Committee monitors the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women by State parties. From 1976 to 2010 Justice Hofmeister worked as a judge, mainly at the Commercial Court in Vienna, where she started to actively address challenges regarding discrimination against women in daily life and in particular in their access to justice.
From 1996 to 2003 Justice Hofmeister served as Chairwoman of the Working Group on Equal Treatment (Austrian Ministry of Justice).
In 1996 Justice Hofmeister served as rapporteur on the topic of access to justice for women in the framework of the Council of Europe’s activities on the promotion of equality between women and mentor From 2010 to 2012, Justice Hofmeister was the Chairwoman of the Austrian Association for the Access of Women to Justice, an independent association supporting female complainers in court procedures aiming at the clarification of women-oriented legal questions.
Justice Hofmeister holds a Doctor of Law Degree from the University of Vienna. In addition to her teaching activities on the topic of women's rights, human rights and justice at several academic institutions (eg University of Vienna, University of Linz, Renner Institute, Rosa Mayreder College) she has published a number of scientific papers on women's human rights and women's access to justice from a practitioner’s perspective.
