He was born in Aksaray, Turkey. He received a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1981 from Istanbul University. After he served as prosecutor and judge in several provinces, he was appointed to Yargıtay, Court of Cassation of Turkey as an investigating judge. He was elected as a member of the Court of Cassation on April 15, 2007. Özkepir was also member of Court of Jurisdictional Disputes from 2007 to 2011 and member of the presidential council of the Court of Cassation from 2016 to 2018.,"Ramazan Özkepir", Court of Cassation, Retrieved on 05 September 2018.
