List of judges at the International Criminal Court

The emblem of the International Criminal Court

The list of judges at the International Criminal Court contains all persons who were or are active as regularly elected judges at the International Criminal Court .

Selection of judges

The building of the International Criminal Court in The Hague

The International Criminal Court consists of 18 judges who are elected for a nine-year term. Of the judges who were elected in 2003 after the court was founded, a third were each elected for an initial term of three, six or nine years, in order to enable staggered re-election or re-election in the following period. This means that elections for one third of the judges take place every three years. The judges are elected by secret ballot by the contracting parties to the Rome Statute . Each State Party may nominate a candidate who does not need its nationals must have, but its one of the Parties in each case, national needs.

Candidates must enjoy a high moral standing, be impartial and honest, and meet the requirements for the highest judicial office in their state. The nominating state must explain in a declaration to what extent the candidate meets these requirements. In addition, each candidate must alternatively have proven specialist knowledge in the field of criminal law and criminal procedural law as well as relevant experience as a judge , prosecutor , attorney or in a similar capacity in criminal proceedings or demonstrable specialist knowledge in relevant areas of international law as well as extensive experience in a legal profession which is important for the judicial work of the Court of Justice. Depending on which requirements the candidate meets, he will be assigned to candidate list A or B; If the candidate fulfills both requirements, he can choose which list he would like to be allocated to. In the first election in 2003, at least nine judges were elected from List A and at least five from List B. Since then, the elections have to take place in such a way that the numerical ratio is maintained.

No two judges working at the court at the same time may come from the same country. The selection of judges should adequately represent the main legal systems of the world, as well as guarantee a fair geographical distribution and a balanced representation of female and male judges. Re-election is generally not permitted. An exception existed or still exists for judges who were only elected for a term of office of three years in 2003 and for those judges who were elected to a vacant seat and hold this office for the remaining term of the predecessor, provided that these were less than three years Years. Regardless of a possible expiry of the term of office, the judges of the main trial or appeal chamber remain in office until all main or legal remedies whose hearing before this chamber has already started have been concluded.

The judges exercise their office full-time. They are independent in the performance of their duties and are not allowed to engage in any activities that could affect their judicial duties or compromise confidence in their independence. If legitimate doubts can be raised about the impartiality of a judge, he will be excluded from the matter in question. If a judge commits serious misconduct or a serious violation of his official duties, or if he is unable to perform his duties, he will be removed from his office. The contracting states of the Rome Statute decide on removal from office in a secret ballot with a two-thirds majority. Disciplinary measures can be initiated for less serious misconduct.

Presidium and Chambers

The judges elect a president and a first and second vice-president with an absolute majority. Together they form the Presidium and exercise their office for a period of three years. A single re-election is permitted. The First Vice-President represents the President if he is prevented or expelled, the Second Vice-President represents the President if the First Vice-President cannot represent him. Among other things, the President and Vice-Presidents are responsible for the proper administration of the Court of Justice.

The Court consists of a Pre-Trial Division, a Main Trial Division and an Appeals Division to which the judges are assigned. The Pre-Trial Division and the Main Trial Division each consist of at least six judges, the Appeals Division consists of the President and four other judges. The judges are assigned to the individual departments according to their abilities. The judges are organized in chambers within the individual departments . While there is only one chamber in the appeals division, which includes all the judges in the division, several chambers can be formed in the other two divisions if necessary.

List of judges

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Country of origin	Surname	Life	Start of term of office	End of term	president	Vice Presidents (first and second)	Department	Remarks
Canada	Philippe Kirsch	1947–	2003	2009	2003-2006, 2006-2009		Appeals Department	Re-election in 2009 not possible.
Ghana	Akua Kuenyehia	1947–	2003 (1st), 2006 (2nd)	2015		2003–2006, 2006–2009 (1st)	Appeals Department	Re-election in 2015 not possible
Bolivia	René Blattmann	1948–	2003	2012		2006–2009 (2.)	Main Litigation Department	Re-election in 2015 not possible.
Trinidad and Tobago	Karl Hudson-Phillips	1933-2014	2003	2007			Main Litigation Department	Resigned due to "personal reasons".
France	Claude Jorda	1938–	2003	2007			Pre-litigation department	Resigned for health reasons.
Cyprus	Georgios Pikis	1939–	2003	2009			Appeals Department	Re-election in 2009 not possible.
Costa Rica	Elizabeth Odio Benito	1939–	2003	2012		2003-2006 (2.)	Main Litigation Department	Re-election in 2012 not possible.
South Africa	Navanethem Pillay	1941–	2003	2008			Appeals Department	Resigned to take up his post as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights .
South Korea	Sang-Hyun Song	1941–	2003	2015	2009–2012, 2012–-2015		Appeals Department	Re-election in 2015 not possible.
Germany	Hans-Peter Kaul	1943-2014	2003	2014		2009–2012 (2.)	Pre-litigation department	Resigned for health reasons.
Italy	Mauro Politi	1944–	2003	2009			Pre-litigation department	Re-election in 2009 not possible.
Ireland	Maureen Harding Clark	1946–	2003	2006			Main Litigation Department	Resigned to go to High Court (Ireland) .
Finland	Erkki Kourula	1948–	2003 (1st), 2006 (2nd)	2015			Appeals Department	Re-election not possible.
Mali	Fatoumata Dembélé Diarra	1949–	2003	2014		2009–2012 (1st)	Main Litigation Department	Re-election in 2012 not possible.
Latvia	Anita Ušacka	1952–	2003 (1st), 2006 (2nd)	2015			Appeals Department	Re-election in 2015 not possible.
United Kingdom	Adrian Fulford	1953–	2003	2012			Main Litigation Department	Re-election in 2012 not possible.
Brazil	Sylvia Steiner	1953–	2003	2012			Pre-litigation department
Samoa	Tuiloma Neroni Slade	1941–	2003	2006			Pre-litigation department	Lost the 2006 election
Bulgaria	Ekaterina Trendafilova	1953–	2006	2015			Pre-litigation department
Japan	Fumiko Saiga	1943-2009	2007 (1st), 2009 (2nd)	2009			Pre-litigation department / main litigation department	Replaced Claude Jorda during his current tenure in December 2017, the post was regularly re-elected in 2009, Saiga won. In the same year she died in office.
Uganda	Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko	1941–	2007	2012			Appeals Department	Re-election in 2012 not possible.
France	Bruno Cotte	1945–	2007	2014			Main Litigation Department	Re-election in 2012 not possible.
Kenya	Joyce Aluoch	1947–	2009	2018		2015– 2018 (1st)	Main Litigation Department	Re-election in 2018 not possible.
Botswana	Sanji Mmasenono assembly	1950–	2009	2018		2012–2015 (1st)	Pre-litigation department / Appeals department (from 2012)	President of the Appointments Department (2014). Re-election in 2018 not possible.
Italy	Cuno Tarfusser	1954–	2009	2018		2012–2015 (2.)	Pre-litigation department	Re-election in 2018 not possible.
Belgium	Christine Van Den Wyngaert	1952–	2009	2018			Main Litigation Department	Re-election not possible.
Argentina	Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi	1954–	2010	2018	2015-2018		Pre-litigation department	Re-election not possible.
Japan	Kuniko Ozaki	1956–	2009	2018		2015–2018 (2.)	Main Litigation Department	Re-election not possible.
Trinidad and Tobago	Anthony Carmona	1953–	2012	2013			Main Litigation Department	Resigned for President of Trinidad and Tobago .
Philippines	Miriam Defensor Santiago	1945-2016	2012	2014				Couldn't take office. Resigned for health reasons.
Czech Republic	Robert Fremr	1957–	2012	2021		2018- (1.)	Main Litigation Department
Dominican Republic	Olga Venecia Herrera Carbuccia	1956–	2012	2021			Pre-litigation department (2012-2015) / main litigation department II (2015-)
United Kingdom	Howard Morrison	1949–	2012	2021			Appeals Department
Nigeria	Chile Eboe-Osuji	1962–	2012	2021	2018-		Main Proceedings Department (2012–2018) / Appeals Department
Trinidad and Tobago	Geoffrey A. Henderson	1961–	2013	2021			Main Litigation Department
France	Marc Perrin de Brichambaut	1948–	2015	2024		2018- (2.)	Pre-litigation department
Poland	Piotr Hofmański	1956–	2015	2024			Appeals Department
Democratic Republic of Congo	Antoine Kesia-Mbe Mindua	1956–	2015	2024			Pre-litigation department
Germany	Bertram Schmitt	1958–	2015	2024			Main Litigation Department
Hungary	Péter Kovács	1959–	2015	2024			Pre-litigation department
South Korea	Chang-ho Chung	1967–	2015	2024			Main Litigation Department
Philippines	Raul Cano Pangalangan	1958–	2015	2024			Main Litigation Department

The Guyanese lawyer Mohamed Shahabuddeen was elected to the Court of Justice for a nine-year term in January 2009, but resigned for personal reasons before he took office.

List of elections

The table contains the results of the previous elections to the International Criminal Court. Candidates marked with an asterisk were confirmed in office.

date	occasion	elected candidates	list	Votes / ballot	not elected candidates
3rd-7th February 2003	first election after the establishment of the Court of Justice	Maureen Harding Clark	A.	65 (1st ballot)	Antonio Boggiano (Argentina), Marc Bossuyt (Belgium), Kocou Arsène Capo-Chichi (Benin), Ion Diaconu (Romania), Jargalsaikhany Enkhsaikhan (Mongolia), Ioannis Giannidis (Greece), Dimitar Gochev (Bulgaria), Bunchhat Heng Vong (Cambodia ), Ivo Josipović (Croatia), Adolphus Karibi-Whyte (Nigeria), Hajnalka Kárpáti (Hungary), Joseph-Médard Katuala Kaba Kashala (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Kamugumya Simon Kahwa Lugakingira (Tanzania), Roberto MacLean Ugarteche (Peru), Doudou Ndir (Senegal), Rafael Nieto Navia (Colombia), Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko (Uganda), Barbara Liliane Ott (Switzerland), Almiro Rodrigues (Portugal), Víctor Rodríguez-Cedeño (Venezuela), Mory Ousmane Sissoko (Niger), Raymond C . Sock (Gambia), Timoci Uluiburotu Tuivaga (Fiji), Juan Antonio Yáñez-Barnuevo (Spain), Eleonora Zielińska (Poland), Boštjan M. Zupančič (Slovenia)
		Fatoumata Dembélé Diarra	A.	65 (1st ballot)
		Sang-hyun song	A.	63 (1st ballot)
		Sylvia Helena de Figueiredo Steiner	A.	61 (1st ballot)
		Akua Kuenyehia	B.	60 (1st ballot)
		Elizabeth Odio Benito	A.	60 (1st ballot)
		Navanethem Pillay	B.	56 (1st ballot)
		Karl Hudson-Phillips	A.	56 (3rd ballot)
		Georgios Pikis	A.	60 (4th ballot)
		Philippe Kirsch	B.	57 (4th ballot)
		Erkki Kourula	B.	56 (4th ballot)
		Adrian Fulford	A.	59 (9th ballot)
		Anita Ušacka	B.	59 (9th ballot)
		Hans-Peter Kaul	B.	57 (9th ballot)
		René Blattmann	B.	57 (13th ballot)
		Mauro Politi	B.	58 (21st ballot)
		Tuiloma Neroni Slade	A.	58 (28th ballot)
		Claude Jorda	A.	57 (33rd ballot)
January 26, 2006	regular election	Ekaterina Trendafilova	A.	82 (1st ballot)	Tuiloma Neroni Slade (Samoa), Károly Bard (Hungary), Cheikh Tidiane Thiam (Senegal), Haridiata Dakoure (Burkina Faso)
		Anita Ušacka *	B.	77 (1st ballot)
		Erkki Kourula *	B.	73 (1st ballot)
		Akua Kuenyehia *	B.	72 (1st ballot)
		Sang-Hyun Song *	A.	70 (1st ballot)
		Hans-Peter Kaul *	B.	67 (1st ballot)
November 30th / December 3rd, 2007	Resignation of Maureen Harding Clark, Karl Hudson-Phillips and Claude Jorda	Fumiko Saiga	B.	82 (1st ballot)	Jean Angela Permanand (Trinidad and Tobago), Graciela Dixon (Panama)
		Bruno Cotte	A.	79 (1st ballot)
		Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko	A.	74 (4th ballot)
19./20. January 2009	regular election	Mohamed Shahabuddeen	B.	79 (1st ballot)	Victoire Désirée Adétoro Agbanrin-Elisha (Benin), Phani Dascalopoulou-Livada (Greece), Christopher John Robert Dugard (South Africa), Chile Eboe-Osuji (Nigeria), María del Carmen González Cabal (Ecuador), Gberdao Gustave Kam (Burkina Faso) , Aminatta Lois Runeni N'Gum (Gambia), Vonimbolana Rasoazanany (Madagascar), Angélique Sita-Akele Muila (Democratic Republic of the Congo), El Hadji Malick Sow (Senegal), Wilhelmina Thomassen (Netherlands), Rosolu John Bankole Thompson (Sierra Leone) , Dragomir Vukoje (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
		Fumiko Saiga *	B.	72 (1st ballot)
		Cuno Tarfusser	A.	74 (3rd ballot)
		Sanji Mmasenono assembly	B.	75 (4th ballot)
		Christine Van Den Wyngaert	A.	73 (5th ballot)
		Joyce Aluoch	A.	100 (9th ballot)
November 18, 2009	Death of Fumiko Saiga and resignation of Mohamed Shahabuddeen	Kuniko Ozaki	B.	79 (1st ballot)	Cecilia Medina Quiroga (Chile), Marco Gerardo Monroy Cabra (Colombia), Duke EE Pollard (Guyana)
		Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi	A.	62 (6th ballot)
12-21 December 2011	regular election	Miriam Defensor Santiago	B.	79 (1st ballot)
		Anthony Carmona	A.	72 (1st ballot)
		Robert Fremr	A.	77 (2nd ballot)
		Olga Venecia Herrera Carbuccia	A.	77 (12th ballot)
		Howard Morrison	A.	72 (13th ballot)
		Chile Eboe-Osuji	A.	102 (15th ballot)

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ^ ICC - Resignation of Judge Karl T. Hudson-Phillips. Retrieved September 10, 2019 (UK English). 
2. ^ ICC - Resignation of Judge Claude Jorda. Retrieved September 10, 2019 (UK English). 
3. ^ International Criminal Court: Public Document Decision replacing a judge in the Appeals Chamber. August 29, 2008, accessed September 10, 2019 . 
4. ^ Julian Ku: CC Judge Resigns. In: Opinio Juris. March 19, 2007, accessed September 10, 2019 . 
5. ^ ICC - Resignation of Judge Maureen Harding Clark. Retrieved September 10, 2019 (UK English). 
6. ↑ International Criminal Court: Second election of the judges of the International Criminal Court. In: https://asp.icc-cpi.int . December 16, 2005, accessed September 10, 2019 . 
7. ^ International Criminal Court: Final Results. Retrieved September 10, 2019 . 
8. ^ ICC - Passing of Judge Fumiko Saiga. Retrieved September 10, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Home. Retrieved September 10, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Miriam quits as ICC judge. Retrieved September 10, 2019 . 
11. ↑ ICC-ASP / 1/3 / Add.1 (PDF; 60 kB; English); ICC-ASP / 1/4 / Add.1 ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.57 MB; English) 
12. ↑ Election of the judges 2006 ( Memento of the original from November 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 10, 2011. 
13. ↑ Election of judges 2007 ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 10, 2011. 
14. ↑ Election of six judges - January 2009 ( Memento of the original from June 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 10, 2011. 
15. ↑ Election of two judges - November 2009 ( Memento of the original from June 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 10, 2011.