Justice Teresa Liszcz was born on 26 May 1945 in Choiny. Graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin in 1968. Awarded her juris doctor's degree in 1974 and habilitated doctor's degree in 1987. Between 1968 and 1970 completed a court training and in 1970 passed the final judge's qualification exam. In the period 1988-1989 a lay judge in the Labour Court.

From 1989 a Head of the Labour Law Department of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Maria Curie Skłodowska University. Member of the Faculty Council of that University.

Deputy to the Sejm of the 10th, the 1st and the 3rd terms of office. Chairman of the Legislative Committee of the Sejm of the 1st term. From 2001 to 2005 Senator and Chairman of the Legislative Committee of the Polish Senate. Between January and October 1991 in the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland as a Secretary of State social and economic affairs and for rural issues. From January 1994 to October 2001 adviser to the President of the Supreme Chamber of Control and member of its Board between 1994 and 1997. Member of the National Council of the Judiciary in the period 1998-2004.

Member of the International Society for Labour and Social Security Law and member of the Lublin Scientific Society

Author of over 200 publications on labour and social security law, including around 20 books.

In December 2006 the Sejm of the Republic of Poland appointed her Justice of the Constitutional Tribunal.