Mr Šaban Maksumić was born in 1960 in Gradska, Ljubuški municipality. He graduated from the Sarajevo Faculty of Law in 1982 and passed the bar exam in 1986. He served as a legal associate at the Municipal Court II in Sarajevo and the High Court in Sarajevo. In 1992, he was appointed a judge at the District Military Court in Sarajevo, and in 1996 a judge at the High Court in Sarajevo. In 1997, he assumed office as judge of the Cantonal Court in Sarajevo. On 11 October 2004, he was appointed a judge at the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In March 2026, judges of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina elected him as a member of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina and he assumed office in September 2026.