18 Facts About Solome Bossa

Solome Balungi Bossa is a Ugandan judge on the International Criminal Court.

Solome Bossa was elected to a nine-year term on 5 December 2017 and was sworn in on 9 March 2018.

Solome Bossa was born on 14 April 1956 in Nsambya Hospital, in Uganda's capital city of Kampala.

Solome Bossa's father, Stanley Walusimbi Ssesanga, was a lawyer and her mother was a housewife.

Solome Bossa graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1979.

Solome Bossa obtained a Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Centre in Kampala.

Solome Bossa has been a human rights activist since 1980 and founded non-profit organisation including the East African Centre for Constitutional Development, the Uganda Network on HIV, AIDS, Ethics and the Law and the Uganda Law Society.

Solome Bossa was a lecturer at the Law Development Centre of Uganda from 1981 until 1997.

Solome Bossa was a legal practitioner from 1988 until 1997, representing indigent women and expanding legal aid, including serving as president of the Uganda Law Society.

Solome Bossa served as Judge at the Uganda High Court from 1997 until 2013.

Solome Bossa was a member of the East African Court of Justice for five years, from 2001 until 2006.

Solome Bossa was a member of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda from 2003 until 2013.

Solome Bossa was a judge on the East African Court of Justice from 2001 until 2006 and on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda from 2003 until 2013.

Solome Bossa was appointed to the Ugandan Constitutional Court in 2013.

In 2014, Solome Bossa was elected Judge of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, for a six-year term.

In 2014, Solome Bossa was one of the judges who annulled Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act for not being passed with the required quorum.

In 2017, Solome Bossa became a nominee for the International Criminal Court and was elected later that year.

Solome Bossa has been married to Joseph Solome Bossa, a lawyer and Uganda People's Congress politician, since 1981.