Ruth Ronnen

Ruth Ronnen was born in 1962 in Israel

Ruth Ronnen was born in Jerusalem in 1962. Her parents were journalist Yoram Ronnen and radio broadcaster Rachel Ronnen. She grew up in the Kiryat Shmuel neighborhood and finished the Hebrew University High School in 1980.

She served in the IDF from 1980 to 1982. In 1986 she earned a law degree with honors from the Hebrew University. She later received a master's in law from Tel Aviv University in 2002 and a master's in philosophy there in 2021.

She clerked for Supreme Court President Meir Shamgar and worked as a lawyer from 1988 to 1995, including a period at a New York firm. She passed the New York bar exams.

In 1995 she became a judge at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court, and in 2005 at the Tel Aviv District Court. From 2010 she sat in the court's new economic department. She also taught at Tel Aviv University.

In February 2022 the Judicial Appointments Committee chose her for the Supreme Court. Esther Hayut backed her and Ayelet Shaked opposed her. She was sworn in on 9 June 2022.