Julia Sebutinde

Julia Sebutinde ( born February 28, 1954 in Entebbe ) is a Ugandan lawyer. She served from 2005 to 2011 as a judge at the Special Court for Sierra Leone to and during this time, among others, the case against former Liberian President Charles Taylor. Since February 2012 she is a judge at the International Court of Justice.

Life

Julia Sebutinde was born in Entebbe in 1954 and graduated in Law at Makerere University, in 1977 with an LL.B. completed. In 1990 she gained beyond an LL.M. degree from the University of Edinburgh. From 1978 to 1991 she worked for the Ministry of Justice in their home country as a prosecutor and as legal advisor to the Ugandan Parliament. After Namibia's independence, she served from 1991 to 1996 on behalf of the Secretariat of the Commonwealth of Nations as an advisory expert for the Namibian government.

Between 1999 and 2002 she was in Uganda at three investigation teams to investigate corruption allegations or financial irregularities in the Ugandan tax authorities and the police and the armed forces of the country. From 1996, she served as a judge at the High Court of Uganda, the third highest court in the judicial system of the country. In addition, it was from 2005 to 2011 Judge of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, where she / 2011, the second process chamber, thereby including the trial of Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia headed in the years 2007/2008 and 2010.

In the November and December 2011 as scheduled be held judges elections for the International Criminal Court in The Hague Julia Sebutinde was elected on 13 December 2011 in a runoff election against incumbent Abdul Gadrie Koroma of Sierra Leone as the fourth woman in the history of the Court of Justice. Your nine -year term began in February 2012.

Julia Sebutinde is married and the mother of two daughters.

Awards

Julia Sebutinde in 2009 received an honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh.