Solomy Balungi Bossa

Solome Balungi Bossa (also Hon. Lady Justice Solomy B. Bossa; born 14 April 1956) is a Ugandan judge on the International Criminal Court. Prior to her election to the court, she was a member of the Court of Appeal in Uganda, which also doubles as the Constitutional Court in the Judiciary of Uganda. She was elected to a nine-year term on 5 December 2017 and was sworn in on 9 March 2018. Her father, Stanley Walusimbi Ssesanga, was a lawyer and her mother was a housewife.

Bossa attended Ugandan schools for her primary and secondary school education. In 1976, she was admitted to Makerere University, in Kampala, to study law. She graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree in 1979. She obtained a Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Centre in Kampala. In 1987, she obtained a Certificate in Law Reporting, from the Commonwealth Youth Centre, in Lusaka, Zambia. Later, in 2016, she was awarded a Master of Laws (LLM) degree, by the University of London, specializing in Public International Law.

She served as Judge at the Uganda High Court from 1997 until 2013. Bossa was a member of the East African Court of Justice for five years, from 2001 until 2006. She was a member of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (UNICTR) from 2003 until 2013.

In 2014, Bossa was one of the judges who annulled Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act for not being passed with the required quorum. She received death threats on social media.

In 2017, Bossa became a nominee for the International Criminal Court and was elected later that year.

Other activities International Commission of Jurists, Member International Association of Women Judges, Member East African Judges and Magistrate Association, Member National Association of Women Judges, Member Uganda Association of Judges and Magistrates, Member

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