Fatoumata Dembélé Diarra

Fatoumata Dembélé Diarra (born 15 February 1949 in Koulikoro) is a Malian lawyer and judge. She was a judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Career Dembélé Diarra received a Bachelor of Laws from Dakar University in Senegal and a Master of Laws from the (national college of public administration). She is also a graduate of the École Nationale de la Magistrature in Paris.

In Mali, she has been an examining magistrate, the president of the country's Assize Court, the president of the Criminal Chamber of the Bamako Appeals Court, and the national director of the Justice Department of Mali. In 2009, Dembélé Diarra was elected First Vice-President of the ICC under president Sang-Hyun Song. She was a member of the ICC's Trial Division.

Fatoumata Dembélé Diarra was at the heart of the Malian Democratic Movement that opposed the monolithic and dictatorial system of General Moussa Traoré in 1991. At the time of the Sovereign National Lecture of Mali in 1991, Madame Fatoumata Dembélé Diarra was an expert member of the group of people who contributed to the compilation of fundamental texts of a democratic Mali. She was elected Judge of the International Criminal Court in 2003.