Arlette Ramaroson

Arlette Ramaroson (born 14 August 1944) is a Malagasy legal scholar. She was a criminal judge in Antananarivo and subsequently a judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. She became the first female international judge from Madagascar. She was also the first female presidential candidate of Madagascar.

Biography Arlette Ramaroson was born on 14 August 1944, in Diego-Suarez, French Madagascar (present-day Antsiranana, Madagascar). She obtained a Bachelor of Laws in 1973 and subsequently a diploma from the Institut d'Etudes Judiciaires in 1974. In 2018, she became the first female presidential candidate for the 2018 Malagasy presidential election.