Athens: Greece's Supreme Court Chief Judge Vassiliki Thanou was on Thursday appointed to head the transitional government that will lead the country to snap general elections. Thanou becoming the country's first female prime minister.

Born in the central Greek city of Chalkida in 1950, Thanou graduated from the Athens University's faculty of law and continued her post-graduate studies in European Law at Sorbonne University in France, Xinhua reported.