graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Warsaw. She has worked her entire career as a Judge in Poland. In 1990 she was appointed as a Supreme Court Justice and served as President of the Labor and Social Insurance Division. Since 2002 she has served as a senior judge on the Court.

She is a Founder and the first President of the Polish Association of Judges IUSTITIA (1990-2008). In the years 1997-2002 she was the Vice–President of MEDEL (European Association of Judges and Public Prosecutors).

She was a Council of Europe expert, a member of the American Bar Association CEELI Advisory Board. She specialized in labor law, social insurance, public affairs and judicial ethics. She served as a lecturer at the University of Warsaw (post graduate studies) and Warsaw University of Technology, teacher of social rights at Human Rights School (Helsinki Foundation). She is an author of numerous articles, books and commentaries about judicial ethics, labour law, social insurance, proceedings in labour and social insurance law, human rights. In the years 2004-2009 she was a member of the Refugee Board. Since 2009, Teresa Romer has been a member of the Council and Chair of the Program Council of the Rule of Law Institute Foundation.

• Promote and support efforts to protect and enhance the rule of law
• Support judicial independence, judicial training and development
• Recognize and support individuals and institutions working for the protection of the rule of law
• Provide expertise and promote innovative solutions designed to support the Polish legal system
• Promote public interest law as an important legal career in Poland and to enhance public interest law’s role in civil society