Gabrielle Kirk McDonald

Gabrielle Anne Kirk McDonald ( born April 12, 1942 in Saint Paul, Minnesota) is an American lawyer. She was from 1993 to 1999 as a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia active, including from 1997 to 1999 as its President, and belongs since 2001 to the Iran- United States Claims Tribunal.

Life

Gabrielle Kirk McDonald was born in 1942 in Saint Paul and completed her academic training from 1959 to 1961 at Boston University, from 1961 to 1963 at Hunter College and then at Howard University, where she in 1966 a law degree as LL.B. obtained. Subsequently she worked as an attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People worked before 1969 in Houston founded his own law firm, where she specialized in cases of discrimination in the workplace.

In 1979 she was appointed Judge of the United States District Court for the southern part of the state of Texas. In this office she worked until 1988, then she worked in Austin again in private practice. In 1993, their election as a judge of the newly established International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, where she served until 1999, including from 1997 to 1999 as President of the Court. It was then Special Adviser on Human Rights of the American mining company Freeport McMoRan - and part since 2001, the Iran- United States Claims Tribunal at.

Gabrielle Kirk McDonald was married and is the mother of a son and a daughter.

Awards

Gabrielle Kirk McDonald was awarded in recognition of their work, among other things 1998 Goler - T. Butcher Medal from the American Society of International Law and of the National Bar Association, an association of lawyers of African-American descent, the Equal Justice Award and the Ronald Harmon Brown Award of International Excellence. Georgetown University, the University of Notre Dame, Howard University, Stetson College of Law and Amherst College awarded her an honorary doctorate. In 2001 appeared to her in honor of a Festschrift entitled "Essays on ICTY Procedure and Evidence in Honour of Gabrielle Kirk McDonald ".