Joan E Donoghue was born on December 12,1956 and is an American lawyer, international legal scholar, former US State Department official, and former president of the International Court of Justice.
16 Facts About Joan Donoghue
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Joan Donoghue was first elected to the court in 2010, re-elected in 2014, and elected by the ICJ judges to be president of the ICJ in 2021.
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Joan Donoghue was the third woman to be elected to the ICJ and the first American woman elected as president of the court.
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Joan Donoghue subsequently received her Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law in 1981.
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Joan Donoghue was the general counsel of Freddie Mac from 2003 to 2005, and served as Principal Deputy Legal Adviser at the United States State Department from 2007 to 2010, including as State Department Acting Legal Adviser in 2009.
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Joan Donoghue previously served as the Office of the Legal Adviser's Deputy Legal Adviser Assistant Legal Adviser for Economic and Business Affairs ; African Affairs ; and Oceans, Environment, and Science.
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Joan Donoghue served as deputy general counsel of the US Treasury Department, overseeing all aspects of the department's work, including international financial institutions.
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Joan Donoghue was elected to the ICJ on September 9,2010, to fill the place left vacant by the resignation of Thomas Buergenthal.
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Pursuant to the Statute of the International Court of Justice, Joan Donoghue completed the remainder of the nine-year term for which Buergenthal had been elected, which expired on February 5,2015.
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Joan Donoghue's name had been the only nomination for this ICJ vacancy received by the secretary-general within the specified time.
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Joan Donoghue was sworn in as a member of the ICJ on September 13,2010.
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Joan Donoghue was only the fourth woman elected to be a member of the court since 1945.
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In 2014, Joan Donoghue was nominated for a second term on the ICJ by the US National Group of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, and was re-elected with 156 votes in the first round of voting at the International Court of Justice judges election, 2014.
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Joan Donoghue was elected 26th president of the court on February 8,2021, succeeding Abdulqawi Yusuf, for a term of three years.
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Joan Donoghue is the second woman to hold the post and third American.
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On January 26,2024, Donoghue delivered an interim ruling on South Africa v Israel on behalf of the ICJ.