{{short description|Polish lawyer and lecturer}} {{more citations needed|date=December 2017}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Henryk Cioch | image = Henryk Cioch Kancelaria Senatu.jpg | image_size = frameless | alt = | office = Senator | term_start = November 2011 | term_end = November 2015 | party = Independent | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1951|7|30}} | birth_place = Lubaczów, Poland | death_date = {{death date and age|2017|12|20|1951|7|30|df=y}} | death_place = Lublin, Poland | office3 = Judge of the Constitutional Tribunal | term_start3 = 2015 | term_end3 = 2017 }} '''Henryk Cioch''' (30 July 1951 – 20 December 2017) was a Polish lawyer, lecturer, professor of law, Senator and justice of Polish Constitutional Tribunal (appointment disputed).
==Early life== In 1969, Cioch graduated from high school in Lubaczów, Poland. In 1973, he graduated with honors from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Maria Curie-Sklodowska (UMCS) in Lublin.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.senat.gov.pl/en/senators/lista-senatorow/senator,125,8,henryk-cioch.html|title=Senate of the Republic of Poland}}</ref>
Cioch joined the Institute of Civil Law as an assistant. In 1982, he defended his doctoral thesis, entitled "Transforming Cooperative Property Rights," written under the direction of Professor Jerzy Ignatowicz.
==Political career== In December 2008, Cioch was named Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Stefczyka in Sopot. In January 2010, President Lech Kaczyński named him as a member of the National Development Council.<ref name=":0" />
In the 2011 election, Cioch was a non-partisan candidate for Law and Justice to the Senate. After campaigning for a seat in the upper house of Parliament, he tallied 52,961 votes, winning the election. Cioch retired in 2015.
==Death== Cioch died on December 20, 2017, in Lublin at age 66.<ref>[https://www.rmf24.pl/fakty/news-warszawa-sedzia-trybunalu-konstytucyjnego-henryk-cioch-nie-z,nId,2480069 Warszawa: Sędzia Trybunału Konstytucyjnego Henryk Cioch nie żyje] {{in lang|pl}}</ref>
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== External links == {{Commons category}} * [https://www.kul.pl/prof-dr-hab-henryk-cioch,art_1219.html Nota biograficzna na stronie KUL]
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