Joyce Aluoch is a Kenya

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 who is currently a judge of the International Criminal Court

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 in The Hague

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. She is a graduate of the University of Nairobi

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 and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University

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. Prior to her appointment to the ICC, Aluoch was a senior member of the Kenyan judiciary, having been the inaugural head of the family division of the Kenyan High Court and a member of the Court of Appeal. She has also served as vice-chair and member of the UN Committee on the Rights and Welfare of the Child from 2003 to 2009.

She was elected to the International Criminal Court in 2009 from the African group of states and her nine year term will expire in 2018. She is currently a member of Trial Chamber III which is hearing the trial of Jean-Pierre Bemba

Jean-Pierre Bemba

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, and is the presiding judge of Trial Chamber IV, which is hearing the case of Banda and Jamus