Gabriela Morawska-Stanecka

Senator of the 10th and 11th term Senate. Deputy Marshal of the 10th Senate, elected on 12 November 2019 during the 1st session of the Senate. Born on 17 March 1968 in Szczyrk. In 1991, she graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In 1993, she passed her judge and attorney-at-law examinations with top honours. She also completed post-graduate Latin American studies at the University of Warsaw (2008) and post-graduate studies in medical law and bioethics at the Jagiellonian University (2017). She worked as an attorney-at-law, was a partner of a civil law partnership (1993-1998), and then pursued the occupation of notary (1998-2007) and barrister. She was a partner in a barrister law firm in Katowice (2009-2018) and run a medical law firm in Katowice (2017-2019). In the 10th term Senate, she served as a Deputy Marshal. She also was the Deputy Chair of the Special Committee to Explain the Cases of Illegal Surveillance And Their Influence on the Electoral Process in the Republic of Poland and for the Reform of Special Services; an Ambassador of the Senate in Women Political Leaders; and the Deputy Chair of the Board of the Polish Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. She is involved in social and educational activities related to equality issues, rights of women, and protection against discrimination. She is a member of the Committee for the Defence of Democracy Association and the Women Congress Association, and she is a representative of the latter in Katowice. She has no political party affiliation.

Polish lawyer