Joyce Kavuma

Joyce Kavuma is a Ugandan lawyer and judge on the High Court of Uganda. She was appointed to that court by President Yoweri Museveni on 8 February 2018.

Background and education Kavuma was born on 18 October 1974. After attending local schools for her elementary education, she was admitted to Mount Saint Mary's College Namagunga, where she pursued both her O-Level and A-Level education.

She graduated from the Faculty of Law of Makerere University, Uganda's largest and oldest public university, with a Bachelor of Laws, in 1997. The following year, she was awarded a Diploma in Legal Practice by the Law Development Centre, in Kampala, Uganda's capital city. She holds a Master of Laws degree, specializing in International Business, from Uganda Christian University, in Mukono. She also earned a master's degree in Management from the Uganda Management Institute, in Kampala. In 2016, she was appointed acting assistant registrar of mediation in the Commercial Division of the High Court. As of March 2018, she was assigned to the Mbarara Circuit of the High Court.