Nationality: Botswana (African States)
Term: 11 March 2009 - 10 March 2018
Assumed full-time duty: 8 June 2009
Elected from: List B on 20 January 2009
Previously assigned to: Appeals Division (11 March 2009 - 10 March 2018)
Biography
Judge as of 11 March 2009, for a term of nine years. First Vice-President of the Court as of 11 March 2012 for a term of three years. Assigned to the Appeals Division; previously served in the Pre-Trial Division. Called to full time duty on 8 June 2009. National of Botswana, elected from List B (competence in international law) on 20 January 2009.
Prior to joining the ICC in 2009, Judge Monageng served as a High Court Judge in the Republic of Gambia and then the Kingdom of Swaziland, responsible for criminal and civil cases as well as constitutional matters.
She is a member of many international organisations including the International Association of Women Judges, the International Commission of Jurists and the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law, and served as the founding Chief Executive Officer of the Law Society of Botswana for many years.
During her career, Judge Monageng has acquired broad experience in the promotion and protection of human rights issues, having been a member of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (2003-2009), and as the Commission's chairperson (November 2007). She also chaired one of the special mechanisms of the Commission, the Follow-up Committee on torture, inhumane, degrading and other treatment.
In 1994 she was appointed Deputy Chief Litigation Officer in the United Nations Observer Mission to South Africa.
She obtained a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Botswana, and started her legal career as a Magistrate in Botswana.
