Lady Justice Joyce Aluoch, EBS, CBS,

Hon. Lady Justice Joyce Aluoch, EBS,CBS(Rtd) is a former Judge and First-Vice President, International Criminal Court at The Hague, The Netherlands. Prior to that she was a judge of the Court of Appeal and High Court, Kenya. She is a Certified International Mediator(IMI), Accredited Mediator(CEDR-London), a Certified Advanced Mediator and a Chartered Mediator. She serves in the International Advisory  Board, office of the Ombudsman for the United Nations Funds and Program, and is a member of the Judicial Reform Committee for South Sudan, under the Revitalised Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan.

As a legal professional, I have had a pivotal role in negotiations between the African Union and the Government of Sudan to ratify the African charter and secure the rights of children, pursued a fact-finding mission to war-torn northern Uganda on the effects of the war on children, and chaired a task-force aimed at handling sexual offences in Kenya through the implementation of the new Sexual Offences Act, 2006.

Hon. Lady Justice Joyce Aluoch, EBS, CBS (Rtd) bears a wide range of extensive experience spanning over 45 years of active legal and judicial service.

Lady Justice Joyce Aluoch, EBS, CBS, is a former Judge and First Vice-President of the International Criminal Court at The Hague, The Netherlands. She was the second woman Court of Appeal and High Court Judge and Magistrate in Kenya.

She holds a master’s degree in International Affairs (GMAP), from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University in Boston, which awarded her the Distinguished alumna award and again in 2018, the University granted her its top Award (honoris causa) only granted to those who carry the University’s ideals throughout their career. This made her the first black person to receive such an honour from Tufts University. She holds an LLB degree from the University of Nairobi and Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Studies from the Kenya School of Law. She is an Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. She is currently engaged in reforming the judiciary of South Sudan under the Revitalized Agreement for the Resolution of the Dispute in South Sudan.

Upon retirement from the bench, she successfully moved her legal profession to Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanisms, particularly mediation and arbitration. She is a Certified International Mediator (IMI), a Certified Advanced Mediator (MTI) a Chartered Mediator (MTI) and an Accredited Mediator (CEDR)-London. She also has a Certificate in International Commercial Arbitration from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London, and is an Accredited trainer with a Certificate of Accreditation in mediation training-London.
She conducts mediations under the Court Annexed Mediation Program (Kenya), FIDA-Kenya, international and domestic mediations and virtual mediations.
She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators London and the Kenya branch, International Council for Commercial Arbitration, Africa Arbitration Association and Nairobi Centre for International Arbitration.
She was recently appointed a member of the International Advisory Board of the office of Ombudsman for the United Nations Funds and Programs, Chair of the Advisory Board of the Africa-Asia Mediation Association (AAMA), Board member, Mediators Beyond Borders International (MBBI). She has just been appointed Chair of Cricket Normalization Committee-Kenya, to bring the game back on track after an impasse caused mostly by governance issues.

She is a recipient of several international and national awards including Presidential Awards of Elder of the Burning Spear (EBS), First Class Order of the Burning Spear (CBS) and Trail Blazer Award (CBS).