Conceptia Ouinsou

Conceptia Liliane Dénis Ouinsou (21 September 1942 – 2 March 2011), sometimes known by the surname Denis-Ouinsou or Denis epse Ouinsou, was a Beninese lawyer, university educator and politician. She was president of the Constitutional Court of Benin from 1998 to 2008.

Biography Ouinsou was born on 21 September 1942 in Grande-Saline, Artibonite, Haiti. She was sometimes known by the surname Denis-Ouinsou or Denis epse Ouinsou.

Ouinsou Ouinsou was educated at the Sœurs de la Sainte Trinité and Collège St. Pierre in Haiti. She studied an undergraduate degree in administration and social sciences at the Université d'État d'Haïti. She then studied a postgraduate degree in law and a doctorate in private law at the Paris-Panthéon-Assas University (commonly known as the University of Paris II) in Paris, France.

Ouinsou became an Associate of Private Law in Libreville, Gabon, in November 1985. before being called to the constitutional court. She was the second woman to preside over Benin's constitutional court, succeeding Elisabeth Ekoué Pognon.

Ouinsou was attacked at her home in 2005, but the attack was repelled by her security detail.

After the 2007 Beninese parliamentary election, Ouinsou announced that authorities had "uncovered several irregularities, including attempts to stuff ballot boxes, underage voting and pressuring of voters," but that the election of Thomas Boni Yayi was valid.

Ouinsou died on 2 March 2011 in Cotonou, Benin, aged 68, Grand Officer of the National Order of Benin Grand Cross of the National Order of Benin