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Executive Council
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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 presently serves as the IAWJ President, and also previously served as chair of the IAWJ Board of Managerial Trustees for six years where she is still a member. 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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President-elect: |
Lady Brenda M. Hale
Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
London, United Kingdom
Right Hon. Lady 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 will become the Supreme Court in October 2009. She was instrumental in founding the United Kingdom Association of Women Judges, of which she is President, and is currently President-Elect of the IAWJ. 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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Vice President: |
Hon. Young Hye Kim
Seoul Southern District Court
Seoul, South Korea
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Vice President: |
Hon. Eusebia Munuo
Court of Appeal of Tanzania
Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania
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Secretary/Treasurer: |
Shelma Lombardi de Kato
Tribunal de Justica de Mato Grosso
Cuiaba, Brazil
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Past-President: |
Hon. Graciela Dixon
Former President of the Supreme Court of Panama
Panama City, Panama
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