Deputy Minister of Justice
Tamar Zodelava
Deputy Minister of Justice
Date of birth: December 8, 1979
On January 21, 2026, she was appointed Deputy Minister of Justice of Georgia.
2025-2006 – Chairperson of the LEPL “State Grant Management Agency”;
2024-2025 – Regional Head of the Parliamentary Component; “Eastern Partnership Regional Project for Public Administration Reform”; German International Cooperation (GIZ);
2021-2024 – Regional Manager of the Parliamentary Project; Project “Eastern Partnership Regional Fund for Public Administration Reform”; German International Cooperation (GIZ);
2020 – Advisor on Legal Issues of State Service Delivery; Project “Good Governance for Local Development in the South Caucasus”; German International Cooperation (GIZ);
2017-2020 – Senior Legal Advisor on Public Administration, Administrative Law and Judicial Reform; Project “Legal Approximation to European Standards in the South Caucasus”, German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ);
2018-2020 – Senior Legal Advisor on Commercial Disputes; Project “Commercial Law and Practice in Georgia”; German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), European Union;
2017-2020 – Manager; Project “Strengthening the Parliamentary Apparatus in the Eastern Partnership Countries”; German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ);
2015-2017 – Senior Legal Advisor on Public Administration, Justice, Civil Service, Administrative Law and Reforms; Project “Legal Approximation to European Standards in the South Caucasus”; German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ); Project “Development of the Private and Administrative Law System in Georgia”; Co-financed by the European Union;
2015-2017 – Manager; Project “Strengthening the Parliamentary Apparatus in Georgia and Armenia”; German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ);
2012-2015 – Senior Legal Advisor on Administrative Law, Public Administration and Judicial Reform; Project “Legal and Justice Reforms in the South Caucasus; German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ);
2010-2011 – Legal Advisor on Judicial, Civil Service Reform, Transitional Justice, Construction Law; Project “Legal and Justice Reform Consulting in the South Caucasus”; German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ);
2004 -2009 – Legal Advisor; Project “Support to the Law and Justice System in Georgia”; German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ);
2007-2023 – German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ); German International Legal Cooperation (IRZ); Friedrich Naumann Foundation; Konrad Adenauer Foundation; Trainer at the Parliament of Georgia;trainer of the Training Center of Justice of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia.
2009-2010 – Continuing education in administrative sciences; University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer, Germany;
2003-2005 – German-language master’s degree – European private law LL.M. Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University;
2000 – Introduction to German law; German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Graduate School, Bremen, Germany;
2000 – International economic law; Tempus-TACIS scholarship program; University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany;
1997-2002 – Faculty of Law; Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University;
1997 – Schule-Schloss Neubeuern; Exchange Program, Germany.
- Speaks Georgian, German, English and Russian.
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