President of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 11 December 2004 to 22 December 2017.

Mrs. Meddžida Kreso, was born on 22 December 1947 in Bijeljina where she completed her high school education. Mrs. Kreso graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Sarajevo in 1970. Having passed the Bar exam in 1973 she was appointed as a Municipal Prosecutor in Mostar where she worked until 1978 when she was appointed a District Court Judge in Mostar. She served as the Judge of this Court for 12 years, until 1989. She served as the President of the Labor Court in Mostar (a type of commercial court) from 1989 to 1992.  The war interrupted her career and she was unemployed from 1992 to 1995. From 1996 to 1998, after the war ended, she worked as an attorney, and from 1998 to 2001 she worked in the legal department of a bank. 

In 2001 when the judiciary reform began she returned to the judiciary sector. In 2001 she was appointed as the Deputy Prosecutor of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and served as the Deputy Prosecutor until the end of 2002. When the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH was established in 2003, she was appointed as the Deputy Chief Prosecutor of Bosnia and Herzegovina in January 2003. On 10 October 2004, Judge Kreso was appointed as a Judge and the President of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.  She was reappointed as the President of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on 26 January 2011.