Katerina Sakellaropoulou was elected President of Greece and assumed the office in 2020, where she continues to serve today. She is the first female president of Greece.

Katerina Sakellaropoulou was born on 30 May 1956 in Thessaloniki, Greece, and lived there for the first eight years of her life. In 1964, she moved to Athens with her family. She graduated from the Arsakeio School, Psychiko, in 1974 and studied law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, successfully completing her studies in 1978. She completed her postgraduate studies in public law at Paris II University.

In 1982, she was appointed Assistant Judge at the Council of State, the Supreme Administrative Court of Greece. In 1988, she was promoted to the rank of Associate Councillor and served at the 3rd Chamber, where she mostly worked on cases regarding education, civil service and local government. In 2000, she was promoted to Councillor of State and served at the 5th Chamber, which deals with environmental law cases. In 2015, she was promoted to Vice-President and was assigned to the 3rd Chamber. On 17 October 2018 she was appointed President of the Council of State and remained in that position until 11 February 2020.

She has also been a member of the Association of Judiciary Functionaries of the Council of the State. During her tenure with the organization, she has served in a number of roles - as Secretary-General from 1985 to 1986, as Vice-President from 2006 to 2008, and as President from 1993 to 1995 and 2000 to 2001. She has authored several articles and essays on matters of constitutional and environmental law. She also contributed to the book Financial crisis and environmental protection in the case law of the Council of State.