Brenda Hollis

Brenda Joyce Hollis (* in Washington, DC ) is an American lawyer and, since February 16, 2010, Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague .

Career

Hollis grew up mostly in Alabama and Ohio . She completed graduate studies at Bowling Green State University and later received at the University of Denver the Juris Doctor . After studying in Ohio, she worked for the Peace Corps in Niger and Senegal . After further studies in the United States , she joined the US Army and became an intelligence officer, involved in the Vietnam War and stationed in Ubon Ratchathani , Thailand , among others . One of her jobs was to train aircrews prior to their missions in Vietnam and Laos . After the end of the Vietnam War and civilian work at a law school in Denver , she was again a member of the US Air Force in 1978 or 1979 , mainly as a prosecutor in the Judge Advocates Corps , combined with intensive travel. At the time of stationing at the Rhein-Main Air Base in Frankfurt am Main during the Bosnian War , she received a request from The Hague, which led her to move to the Netherlands : She became one of the prosecutors in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and in the consequence of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda .

The appeal by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone took place in February 2010. The court, prosecution and international media see a task in solving the trade in blood diamonds to finance activities in the civil war in Sierra Leone . In addition, the main defendant Charles Taylor or Naomi Campbell and Mia Farrow were questioned .