Johannes Mendlik
Mendlik studied law at Leiden University from 1955 to 1961. After his studies, he became a judicial officer in training in 1961 at the  (nowadays merged into the Court of Zeeland-West-Brabant), where he held several other positions. He became a judge in 1970. In 1978 he became vice president of the court and from 1986 to 1994 he served as president. Afterwards he was president of the  from 1994 to 2000. During his presidency there he was involved in modernizing the court and founding the .