Nationality: Trinidad and Tobago (Latin American and Caribbean States)
Term: 1 February 2014 - 10 March 2021
Assumed full-time duty: 3 February 2014
Elected from: List A on 12 December 2013
Previously assigned to: Trial Division (11 March 2012 - 16 March 2021)
Biography
Judge as of 1 February 2014, with a term until 10 March 2021 (elected to fill a judicial vacancy). Assigned to the Trial Division; assumed full-time duty on 3 February 2014. National of Trinidad and Tobago, elected from List A (competence in criminal law and procedure) on 23 November 2013.
Prior to his election to the ICC in 2013, Judge Henderson served as a trial Judge in the Criminal Division of the High Court of Justice of Trinidad and Tobago, where he was appointed in January 2009.
He has previously served as a State Prosecutor, joining the Office of The Director of Public Prosecutions in 1990. Here, he held various positions until 2002, when he was appointed to the position of Director of Public Prosecutions for Trinidad and Tobago.
Earlier in his career, he was a Board Member of the Judicial Education Institute of Trinidad and Tobago, a former Associate Tutor at the Sir Hugh Wooding Law School and was involved in regional training workshops for prosecutors. He chaired a Steering Committee that was responsible for the roll-out of a pilot Drug Treatment Court in Trinidad and Tobago.
Judge Henderson is also a Fellow of the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute, University of Nova Scotia.
He is a graduate of the University of the West Indies, Bachelor of Arts (Hons), Bachelor of Laws and obtained a Legal Education Certificate from the Sir Hugh Wooding Law School, Trinidad.
