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Executive Council
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President: |
Lady Brenda M. Hale
Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
London, United Kingdom
Right Hon. Baroness Hale of Richmond is a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. From the original Richmond in North Yorkshire, after which all other Richmonds in the world are named, she was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, and called to the Bar by Gray's Inn. She spent the first 18 years of her career as an academic lawyer in the University of Manchester. She then became the first woman member of the Law Commission, a statutory body which promotes the reform of the law, and led the work which resulted in important reforms of Family Law. In 1994, she was appointed a High Court judge, the first to have made a career in academic and public life rather than at the Bar. In 1989 she was promoted to the Court of Appeal and in 2004 she became the first and only woman Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in the House of Lords, which was then the highest court in the United Kingdom. The Law Lords became the Supreme Court in October 2009. She was instrumental in founding the United Kingdom Association of Women Judges, of which she is President. She looks forward to serving as President of the IAWJ from 2010-12 and to hosting its biennial international conference in London in 2012.
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President-Elect: |
Hon. Eusebia Nicholas Munuo
Court of Appeal Tanzania
Dar-es-Saalam, Tanzania
Justice Eusebia Nicholas Munuo obtained her L.L.B. from the University of East Africa, now the University of Dar- es- Salaam, joining the judiciary directly upon graduation in 1970. From 1970-1987, she worked her way up through the ranks of the Magistracy, from Resident Magistrate to Senior Resident Magistrate, and ultimately to Principal Resident Magistrate (extended jurisdiction). She was appointed a Judge of the High Court of Tanzania on the 1st April 1987, a position she occupied until the end of August 2002, when she was appointed Justice to the Court of Appeal, the highest court of the land. Besides her full time job as a judicial officer, she has had part time assignments with the Local Government Elections Board, Arusha, the Law Reform Commission, and the Regional Housing Tribunal, Arusha.
A founding member of the Tanzania Women Judges Association, Justice Munuo has written a book on women's rights in Kiswahili. She participates in legal
literacy programs and moot courts on human rights and environmental law.
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Vice President: |
Hon. Teresita Leonardo de Castro
Supreme Court of the Philippines
Manila, The Philippines
Justice De Castro was appointed to the Supreme Court on December 1, 2007. She is an alumna of the University of the Philippines College of Law where she earned a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude in 1968 and Bachelor of Laws in 1972 at the top four of her class. She was the Vice-Chancellor and a consistent member of the UP College of Law honor society, the Order of the Purple Feather from 1969 to 1972 and a staff member of the Philippine Law Journal. She was elected to lifetime membership in Phi Kappa Phi International Honor Society and Pi Gamma Mu International Honor Society in the Social Sciences. She attended law courses in the International Law Institute in Washington D.C., USA and Harvard Law School's Program of Instruction of Lawyers in Massachusetts, USA.
Justice De Castro's career in public service spans 36 years and began on February 19, 1973 when she passed a law clerk examination administered by the Supreme Court to the top 20 recent law graduates. From January 1975 to November 1978, she served first as a law clerk and later as a Legal/Judicial Assistant and as a member of the technical staff of the late Chief Justice Fred Ruiz Castro. In December 1978, she transferred to the Department of Justice (DOJ) where she rose from the ranks culminating in her appointment in 1997 as Assistant Chief State Counsel. In 1998, for her outstanding role as legal adviser of the government panel which contributed to peace in Southern Philippines, she was awarded by then President Fidel V. Ramos with the Presidential Medal of Merit. Justice De Castro rejoined the Judiciary as Sandiganbayan Associate Justice on September 23, 1997 and became its Presiding Justice on December 15, 2004. During her incumbency, she spearheaded the establishment of the Computerized Court Management System, the first in the Philippine Judiciary, and the adoption of reforms that contributed to easing the court docket in the Sandiganbayan. She is now a member of the First Division of the Supreme Court.
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Vice President: |
Hon. Tamarin Dunnet
Ontario Superior Court of Justice
Toronto, Canada
The Hon. Justice Tamarin Dunnet was appointed to the Supreme Court of Ontario in 1990 where she has presided over criminal and civil jury trials and appellate matters for twenty years. In 2010, she was also appointed to the Ontario Review Board, an administrative tribunal responsible for reviewing the status of persons found to be not criminally responsible or unfit to stand trial for criminal offences on account of a mental disorder. Justice Dunnet was educated at Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland and Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia where she served as President of Shirreff Hall, President of Pi Beta Phi Fraternity and President of Dalhousie University Panhellenic Council. Before her appointment to the Bench, she practiced civil litigation for fifteen years, specializing in personal injury and medical malpractice. During that time, she served on the National Executive Committee of the Canadian Bar Association and as President of the County of York Law Association and President of the Women's Law Association of Ontario. She is a graduate of the Harvard Law School Mediation Course and has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. She has been a presenter at the National Judicial Institute and legal conferences.
For twelve years, Justice Dunnet has been an active member of the Canadian Chapter of the IAWJ and has served on the Board of Directors as Secretary, International Director and Chair of the Constitution and Bylaws Committee, Nominating Committee and International Outreach Committee. She has served on the IAWJ Board of Directors as a regional director and Chair of the Bylaws Committee. Justice Dunnet is married to The Hon. Justice Patrick Moore and they have three daughters, a senior policy analyst, a dentist and a lawyer.
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Secretary/Treasurer: |
Hon. Susana Medina de Rizzo
Poder Judicial de Entre Rios
Laprida, Argentina
Dr. Susana Medina de Rizzo is President of the Association of Women Judges in Argentina (AMJA). She is currently Minister of Justice of the Superior Court of the Province of Entre Rios, Argentina and Chairman of the Board No. 3 Labour. She first became an attorney in 1978 and worked with a law firm until 1983. In 1983 she headed Free Legal Assistance for the Bao of Entre Rios. She has served as the legal representative for the Federation of Health Workers in Argentina (Federación de Trabajadores de la Sanidad Argentina - FATSA), and taught at the University in Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL), Universidad Autónoma de Entre Ríos (UADER) and Jury of Teachers Contests. Currently she serves as a teacher in the Instituto de Estudios Terciarios de la Escuela de Oficiales de Policía "Salvador Maciá" Entre Ríos Argentina (Tertiary Studies Institute at the School of Police Officers "Salvador Maciá" Entre Ríos Argentina).
In the Justice Provincial of Entre Rios, Argentina in successive Dra. Medina has progressed in such positions as: Advocate for Poor and Minors, Fiscal Agent, Judge of Instruction in First Instance, since 2004 she has been Provincial Minister of Justice and also chairman of the Third Division of Labor. An author of several articles, she is a member of the Asociación Argentina de Victimología (Argentine Association of Victims); the Asociación Civil Justicia y Democracia (Democratic Association, Civil and Justice); the Asociación de Mujeres Jueces de Argentina (Association of Women Judges Of Argentina), and from 2006-08 has served on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Women Judges as a Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Past-President: |
Hon. Leslie Alden
Fairfax County Circuit Court
Fairfax, VA, United States
Judge Leslie M. Alden has been a trial judge in Fairfax County, Virginia since 1995. She served as the IAWJ President from 2008-2010, and also previously served as chair of the IAWJ Board of Managerial Trustees for six years, on which she is still a member. Since 2010, she also serves on the Board of Directors of the International Judicial Academy. For five years, Judge Alden served as the International Director for the US National Association of Women Judges. Judge Alden has delivered a judicial perspective about the importance of the rule of law and the observance of human rights principles in courts, by speaking to legal groups in Nigeria, Cuba, Chile, South Africa, Italy, Russia, Turkey, Jordan, Hungary, Brazil, India and South Korea. Judge Alden serves as a Corresponding Editor for International Legal Materials, a publication of The American Society of International Law, as well as a member of the Editorial Review Board for the Advanced Management Journal, the publication of the Society for the Advancement of Management. Judge Alden earned her J.D. in 1983 from George Mason University School of Law, where she has been an Adjunct Professor of Law, and earned her B.S. (Business Administration) in 1978 from George Mason University. In 2001, she completed the Economics Institute for State Judges presented by the Law and Organizational Economics Center. In 2005, she completed the Sir Richard May Seminar on International Law and International Courts presented by the International Judicial Academy.
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