Esther Mayambala Kisaakye is a Ugandan

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. She is a Justice of the

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. She was appointed to that position in July 2009.

Education

She obtained her

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from

Trinity College Nabbingo Trinity College Nabbingo (TRICONA), is an all-girls boarding school covering grades 8–13 in Central Uganda. Location The school is located on a hill in the village of Nabbingo, in Wakiso District, approximately , by road, south-west of Kampal ...

, an all-girls middle and high school (grades 8 – 13), located in Nabbingo, in

Wakiso District Wakiso District is a district in the Central Region of Uganda that partly encircles Kampala, Uganda's capital city. The town of Wakiso is the site of the district headquarters. Kira, the country's second largest city and suburb of Kampala, is i ...

in the Buganda Region of Uganda. Her first degree is a

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, Upper Second Division, from

Makerere University Makerere University, Kampala (; Mak) is Uganda's largest and oldest institution of higher learning, first established as a technical school in 1922. It became an independent national university in 1970. Today, Makerere University is composed of ni ...

, in

Kampala Kampala (, ) is the capital and largest city of Uganda. The city proper has a population of 1,680,000 and is divided into the five political divisions of Kampala Central Division, Kawempe Division, Makindye Division, Nakawa Division, and Ruba ...

, Uganda's

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and largest city. She also holds a

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from the

Law Development Center The Law Development Centre (LDC) is an educational institution in Uganda for higher learning that offers various legal courses ranging from one month to one year. Overview The LDC is the only institution in Uganda that offers the Bar Course leadi ...

, also in Kampala. Esther Kisaakye holds a

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from

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, in

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, in the USA. Her degree of

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(SJD), was obtained from the

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, also in Washington, with the help of an international fellowship from the

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and on a scholarship grant from the Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund.

Career

Prior to her appointment to the Supreme court, she served as a

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at the Faculty of Law at

. Besides lecturing at Makerere, she served as vice chairperson of the Association of Uganda Women Lawyers, which operated a legal aid clinic. In 1993, she was selected by the Leadership & Advocacy for Women in Africa Program to do a Master of Arts on Women's Rights at

. The ''East African Journal on Peace & Human Rights'' published her thesis, "Changing the Terms of the Debate to Resolve the Polygamy Question in Africa." She served as board member of the Uganda AIDS Commission and a co-founder of the Strategic Litigation Coalition. In April 2013 she was appointed the chair of the ''East African Judicial Committee''. In September 2013 Esther Kisaakye was elected as the new president of the ''National Association of Women Judges in Uganda''. She was part of the panel of the Supreme Court Judges who handled the NUP Party’ Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Robert Presidential Election Petition No. 01 of 2021 that Alleged Electoral Fraud in the 2021 Presidential elections. however there was controversy when she accused the Chief Justice Owiny Dollo of confiscating her file with a minority ruling.

Books Authored

* The Human Rights of Women: International Instruments and African Experiences, published in 2002 by Zed Books * Employment Discrimination Against Women Lawyers in Uganda: Lessons & Prospects for Enhancing Equal Opportunities for Women in Formal Employment published by American University, Washington College of Law, in 2009

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