Mykola Selivon

Mykola Selivon (Ukrainian: Микола Федосович Селівон) is a Ukrainian jurist, judge, diplomat and former chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine.

Mykola Selivon
Микола Селівон
Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine
In office 19 October 2002 – 18 October 2005
Nominated by	Leonid Kuchma
President	Leonid Kuchma Viktor Yushchenko
Preceded by	Viktor Skomorokha
Succeeded by	Ivan Dombrovskyi
Ambassador of Ukraine to Kazakhstan
In office 10 May 2006 – 29 June 2010
President	Viktor Yushchenko Viktor Yanukovych
Preceded by	Vasyl Tsybenko
Succeeded by	Oleh Dyomin
Personal details
Born	(1946-10-30) 30 October 1946 Shestovytsia, Chernihiv Raion, Ukrainian SSR
Nationality	Ukrainian
Alma mater	Kiev University Law Faculty (1968–73) NANU Institute of State and Law (1978)
Occupation	Jurist, judge, diplomat

Selivon is from Chernihiv Oblast. His working career he started as a techinicain at a military unit stationed in Chernihiv. During that time he also served his obligatory military duty. In 1968 Selivon enrolled at the Kiev University. In 1973 he graduated the Kiev University Law Faculty and after a brief internship-like training at the NANU Institute of State and Law, until 1979 worked as a junior researcher at the institute.

In 1979–1996 Selivan worked at the legal department of the Office of Minister of the Council of Ministers.

In 1996–2005 he was a judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine. In 2005 at the presidential inauguration Selivon was administering an oath from the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko.

In 2005–2006 as a professor he was lecturing at the National Academy for Public Administration. In 2006–2010 he served as the ambassador of Ukraine to Kazakhstan.

External links

• Mykola Selivon. Constitutional Court of Ukraine website.
• Mykola Selivon at the Official Ukraine Today
• Mykola Selivon. National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine