Date of initial appointment to the judicial roster: 26 May 2023
Current term: 1 July 2024 – 30 June 2026
Judge Lydia Mugambe has been a Judge of the Mechanism since May 2023. In this capacity, she has been involved in a number of matters as a Single Judge.
Aside from her duties with the Mechanism, Judge Mugambe has been serving as a Judge of the High Court of Uganda since 2013. Previously, she worked at the ICTR, both as legal officer within the Chambers Legal Support Section (2005-2010) and as appeals counsel within the Appeals and Legal Advisory Division of the ICTR Office of the Prosecutor (2010-2013). Earlier in her career, she was a judicial officer within the Ugandan judiciary (2000-2005).
Judge Mugambe is a member of several professional associations, including the International Association of Women Judges, the East Africa Magistrates’ and Judges’ Association, the Uganda Women Judges’ Association, the Commonwealth Magistrates’ and Judges’ Association, and the Oxford Human Rights Hub. She has published and presented on issues of human rights and children’s rights.
Judge Mugambe holds a bachelor’s degree in law from Makerere University, Uganda (1997); a master’s degree in law from the University of Pretoria, South Africa (2002); and a master’s degree in law from Lund University, Sweden (2004). She was called to the Ugandan Bar in 1998 and is currently a doctoral researcher in law at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Judge Mugambe is fluent in English and has an understanding of French.