Orna Lin

Orna Lin was born in 1956

Orna Lin was born in 1956 to Ruth and Amnon Lin, who later became a member of the Knesset. She is a granddaughter of Abba and Hanna Hushi. Abba Hushi was the first Jewish mayor of Haifa.

She attended the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa and studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She interned at the Supreme Court with Justice Haim Cohn and at the State Attorney's Office. She joined the Israeli Bar in 1981.

She first worked as a legal adviser in the Finance Ministry's wages division and then in the Civil Service Commission. In 1985 she moved to private practice, and from 1991 she was a partner at M. Seligman & Co. In January 2003 she founded her own firm, Orna Lin & Co., which represents the Histadrut and other worker organizations.

She headed the Bar's Tel Aviv district from 1999 to 2003 and its national council from 2003 to 2006, the first woman in both posts. She has served on public committees and on the Israel Press Council. In January 2018 she was listed as a candidate for the Supreme Court.

She lives in Tel Aviv with her partner, the actress Rivka Neumann.