Nationality: Kenya (African States)
Term: 11 March 2009 - 10 March 2018
Assumed full-time duty: 25 May 2009
Elected from: List A on 20 January 2009
Previously assigned to: Trial Division (11 March 2009 - 10 March 2018)
Biography
Judge as of 11 March 2009, for a term of nine years. Assigned to the Trial Division; assumed full-time duty on 25 May 2009. National of Kenya, Elected from List A (competence in criminal law and procedure) on 20 January 2009.
Prior to joining the ICC, Judge Aluoch was a Judge of the High Court of Kenya for over 20 years, and was elevated to the Court of Appeals in December 2008.
As a former vice-chairperson of the Judicial Curriculum Review Committee, she has extensive experience in the training of judges, magistrates and paralegals, a programme she undertook in conjunction with the International Association of Women Judges.
She chaired the African Union Committee of Experts on the Rights of the Child (2001-2005) and has undertaken special missions, such as negotiations on behalf of the African Union with the Government of Sudan and a fact-finding mission to war-torn northern Uganda to report on the effects of the war on children.
Judge Aluoch also served for six years as vice-chair and member of the UN Committee on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (2003-2008), and chaired a task-force that worked toward the implementation of the Sexual Offences Act 2006, aimed at developing a national policy framework for handling sexual offences in Kenya.
She holds a Law Degree from the University of Nairobi (1973), a diploma in Legal Studies from the Kenya School of Law (1974) and a Master's Degree in International Affairs (GMAP) from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA (2008).
