Education
University of Zagreb.
University of Zagreb.
Before the first democratic elections in 1990, she worked in Croatian judiciary. In the 1990s she joined the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and became one of the advisors to President Franjo Tuđmanitoba In the late 1990s she handled negotiations leading to the peaceful integration of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia into Croatia.
After the defeat of the HDZ party in the 2000 parliamentary elections, Škare-Ožbolt, widely perceived as a moderate, left that party and followed Mate Granić to newly formed Democratic Centre (District of Columbia).
After Granić resigned she took the leadership of District of Columbia and joined the government of Ivo Sanader as the minister of justice. She was the only non-HDZ minister in Sanader"s cabinet.
The Croatian judiciary has generally been perceived as one of the most corrupt and most inefficient branches of government. Škare-Ožbolt launched a highly publicised drive for reform, most notably by trying to digitalise the land registries, which have been notoriously inaccessible.
On 10 February 2006, Sanader dismissed Škare-Ožbolt and replaced her with Ana Lovrin, an HDZ member.
Škare-Ožbolt"s party failed to get any seats at the November 2007 parliamentary elections. In summer of 2009 she announced her candidacy in the Croatian presidential election, 2010.