Board of Directors

Asia & South Pacific

• Hon. Margaret Beazley
  New South Wales Court of Appeal
  Sydney, Australia
  

Justice Beazley is the third most senior judge in New South Wales, as a member of the New South Wales Court of Appeal since 1996. She was a judge of the Federal Court of Australia from 1993 to 1996 and a judge of the Industrial Relations Court from 1994 to 1996. Justice Beazley was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia in the Queens' Birthday Honours List on 12 June 2006 for service to the judiciary and the law, particularly through contributions to professional and ethical standards, to the advancement of women in the legal profession and the community. In 2008, Justice Beazley was conferred with a Doctor of Laws honoris causa by the University of Sydney. Her Honour presently is Chair, NSW Chapter, Australian Institute Administrative Law; Executive Committee Member of the Judicial Conference of Australia; Chair, Women's Advisory Network of the National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre; Secretary, Executive Committee, Australian Association of Women Judges; Member, Planning Committee, International Association of Women Judges; Member, Board of Governors, Queenwood School for Girls; and Advisory Board Member, Centre for Children and Young People, Southern Cross University and is a frequent guest speaker and presenter at conferences throughout Australia. Justice Beazley graduated LLB (Honours) from the University of Sydney in 1974, was admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 1975 and appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1989. She was a Judicial Member of the Equal Opportunity Tribunal (1984-1988); Acting District Court Judge (1990, 1991) and Assistant Commissioner, ICAC (1991-1992). Her Honour was previously Member, Advisory Group to the Australian Law Reform Commission on "Review of the Adversarial System in Litigation"; Member, Advisory Board for the Centre for Judicial Research; National Committee Member, Union Internationale des Advocats; Chairperson, Bar Council Law Reform Committee (1991); Chairperson, Federal Law Liaison Committee (1990, 1991); Member, Law Council Company Committee (1991, 1991); Member, Bar Council (1989-1992); and Chair, Advisory Committee, "Equality Before the Law Bench Book", Judicial Commission of New South Wales.


• Hon. Peggy Pi-Hu Hsu
  Constitutional Court
  Tapei, Taiwan Chapter
  
  Justice Peggy Pi-Hu Hsu was born in Taiwan in 1948. She received her LL.B. degree from National Taiwan University in 1970, and earned her LL.M. degree at Columbia University, New York in 1979. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Washington's School of Law in Seattle, from September 1988 to March 1989. She served as a prosecutor of the Taiwan Taipei District Prosecutors Office from 1973 to 1974. From 1974 to 1983, she served as a judge of the Taiwan Taipei District Court. From 1980 to 2000, she also taught Intellectual Property Law and Practice of Civil Procedure at the Chinese Culture University. From 1983 to 1985, she served as a judge of the Fukien High Court, Hsiamen Branch Court. In 1984, she was selected as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Women in Taiwan. From 1985 to 1991, she served as a judge in the Taiwan High Court. Subsequently, after serving as an acting justice of the Supreme Court in 1991, she was promoted to the justice of the Supreme Court in 1992, and remained at that post for eleven years. The Judicial Yuan presented her with the Outstanding Judge Award of 2002. She was appointed as a justice of the Constitutional Court, and took her seat on October 1, 2003. She was the secretary general of the Taiwan Chapter of the IAWJ, since the founding period in 1992. Then from January 1995 she was the secretary general for the first and second terms until January 1999. From February 2002 to April 2006 she was the IAWJ Membership Committee's chairperson. Justice Hsu was the President of the Taiwan Chapter of the IAWJ from January 2007 to January 2009.

Africa

• Hon. Joyce Alouch (Kenya)
  International Criminal Court
  The Hague, Netherlands


Judge Aluoch was elected to the International Criminal Court in January 2009 and began serving a nine year term in March 2009 assigned to the Trial Division.. Previously, she was a judge of the High Court of Kenya for over 20 years, and was elevated to the Court of Appeal, Kenya in December 2008. She was also an advocate of the High Court of Kenya. As a senior judge and vice-chairperson of the Judicial Curriculum Review Committee she had extensive experience in the training of judges, magistrates and paralegals in the provision of regional and international human rights instruments, a programme she undertook in conjunction with the International Association of Women Judges. Judge Aluoch also contributed to promoting the rights of the child, as chair of the African Union Committee of Experts on the Rights of the Child, preparing the rules of practice and procedure for the committee as well as guidelines for initial reporting to the African Committee by Member States of the African Union. Special missions undertaken by Judge Aluoch include negotiations undertaken on behalf of the African Union with the Government of Sudan to ratify the African charter to secure the rights of children, and a fact finding mission to the war-torn northern Uganda to report on the effects of the war on children. She also served for six years as vice-chair and member of the UN Committee on the Right and Welfare of the Child and was in the process of chairing a task-force for the implementation of the new Sexual Offences Act, 2006 aimed at developing a national policy frame work and a national action plan for handling sexual offences in Kenya. She is currently serving a two-year term as a regional director on the IAWJ's Board of Directors.


• Hon. Florence R. Arrey
  U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
  Buea, Cameroon


Judge Florence Rita Arrey, born in 1948, has worked for more than 30 years at the national and international levels advocating Human Rights, campaigning for the rights of women and girls as well as combating domestic violence against women and children. Since October 2003, Florence Rita Arrey has been a Judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda adjudicating cases of genocide before the Tribunal. Prior to her appointment at the UN Tribunal based in Arusha, Tanzania, she was Judge on the Cameroonian Supreme Court. Before this, she served as Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals for several years, the first Cameroonian woman to hold the post. Having studied law at the University of Lagos in Nigeria and the University of London, she went on to obtain a Diploma in Magistracy in Cameroon. She has attended many conferences on criminal justice, international law and women's rights. She is a member of several law associations such as the Commonwealth Magistrates and Judges Association and Society for the Reform of Criminal Law. She is also President of the Cameroonian chapter of the International Association of Women Judges.

Central & South America

• Hon. Margartia Centella
  Tribunal Suprior de Trabajo
  Veraguas, Panama


Margarita Ibets Centella G. has a degree in law and political science from the University of Panama where she was a member of the Honor Sigma Landa Chapter. She has a doctorate degree in law, specializing in labor law, from the University of La Paz and a master's degree in labor law from the Univeristy of Santa Maria La Antigua where she graduated Summa Cum Laude. She also obtained a post-graduate degree in labor law from the same univeristy. Margarita Ibets Centella is a magistrate for the Superior Tribunal of Labor for the Second Judicial District. Magistrate Centella has written various publications about labor rights and judicial ethics. She has participated in national and international seminars as well as hosting numerous conferences concerning worker's rights, judicial ethics, equal justice, and gender violence. At the Department of Judicial Education she is responsible for the Organization of Cabinets, Ethics, Judicial Deontology, and Gender Violence which educates civil servants and the Department of the Interior of the Republic. Magistrate Centella was president of the National Association of Magistrates and Judges of the Judiciary of Panama (AMAJUP) from 2003-2004. She has promoted, with determination, the creation of the IAWJ's Jurisprudence of Equality Program (JEP) in her country and its courses on gender violence and discrimination against women. She served as co-chair of the AMAJUP Coordinating Committee for the IAWJ's 9th Biennial International Conference held in Panama in 2008.

Margarita Ibets Centella G.
Tribunal Superior de Trabajo del Segundo Distrito Judicial
Provincia de Veraguas , Panama

Es Licenciada en Derecho y Ciencias Políticas en la Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas de la Universidad de Panamá perteneciendo al Capítulo de Honor Sigma Landa. Es Doctora en Derecho con énfasis en Derecho Laboral, titulo obtenido en la Universidad de La Paz. Posee una Maestría en Derecho Laboral de la Universidad Santa María La Antigua, ocupando el grado de Summa Cum Laude de su promoción. También tiene un Posgrado en Derecho Laboral de esa misma Universidad. Ocupa el cargo de Magistrada del Tribunal Superior de Trabajo del Segundo Distrito Judicial. La Magistrada Centella posee varias publicaciones sobre derecho laboral y ética judicial. \ Ha participado en seminarios nacionales e internacionales y ha dictado numerosas conferencias en temas del derecho del trabajo, ética judicial, justicia igualitaria y violencia de género. Es responsable en Escuela Judicial de los Seminarios: Organización de Despacho y Ética y Deontología Jurídica y Violencia de Género que imparte a funcionarios de la ciudad y del interior de la República. La Magistrada Centella fue Presidenta Nacional de la Asociación de Magistradas y Juezas del Órgano Judicial de Panamá (AMAJUP) en el bienio 2003-2004. Ha impulsado con determinación en su país la ejecución del Programa de Jurisprudencia Igualitaria auspiciado por la Asociación Internacional de Mujeres Juezas y adelantado en asocio con la Escuela Judicial, los cursos sobre Violencia de Génerio y Discriminación contra la Mujer.

• Hon. Gleide Bispo Santos
  Tribunal de Justica de Mato Grosso
  Cuiaba, Brazil

North America

• Hon. Tamarin Dunnet
  Ontario Supreme Court of Justice
  Toronto, Canada



• Hon. Carolyn Temin
  Court of Common Pleas, 1st Judicial District
  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA


Madame Justice Tamarin Dunnet has served on the Superior Court of Justice, Ontario, Canada, for twenty years, presiding over criminal and civil jury trials and appellate matters. Before her appointment to the bench, she was a specialist in civil litigation. She has lectured at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, The Advocates' Society and the National Judicial Institute. She is Past President of The Women's Law Association of Ontario and Past President of the County of York Law Association. She has received the Canadian Bar Association's Dedicated Service Award and The Women's Law Association's President's Award. She currently serves on the IAWJ Board of Directors as an elected representative of the North American Region. Justice Dunnet is married to the Honourable Justice Patrick Moore of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and they have three daughters.

Europe & Middle East

• Hon. Marianne de Rooij
  Court of First Instance Amsterdam
  Amsterdam, Netherlands
  


• Hon. Jill Wainwright
  Exeter County Court
  Devon, United Kingdom


Judge Jill Wainwright is the Senior District Judge at Exeter Combined Crown and County Court in Devon. She has been a District Judge since 1998, when she was first appointed to the Western Circuit. Whilst in Exeter, she has been instrumental in creating mediation pilots for both family and civil works, which have instigated the creation of nationwide mediation schemes. She does only civil and family work. Prior to appointment, she was a solicitor and mediator who worked in London and the Home Counties, since qualifying in1981, running her own practice for ten years. She was involved from the first in the UK Association of Women Judges, on the main committee, and has attended the last two IAWJ conferences, as a board member for Europe and the Middle East. She was elected a board member during the IAWJ's 2006 8th Biennial International Conference in Australia. In that post, she has "have been partially responsible for instigating contacts across the Near/Middle East, becoming liaison with the British Council in a project, Women @Work, with particular reference to women judges in Egypt, visiting Egypt twice and attending a regional conference in Alexandria in 2009,where she met women judges from several countries in the region and is endeavoring to support the creation of a regional association.