Monica Kalyegira Mugenyi is a Ugandan

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and

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, who, on 4 October 2019, was nominated to sit on the Uganda Court of Appeal. Before that, she sat on the High Court of Uganda. She was appointed to that court by president

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on 17 June 2010.

Background and education

She graduated from the Faculty of Law of

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, Uganda's largest and oldest public university, with a

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, circa 1992. The following year, she was awarded a

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by the

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in Kampala, Uganda's capital city. She also holds a

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in International Trade Law, from the

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in the

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Career

Prior to her ascension to the bench, she was in private practice at ''Mugenyi & Company Advocates'' and had served as the manager of corporate services at the Uganda Road Fund. She also previously worked in the Office of the Attorney General and in the Privatization Unit. At the High Court, she was seconded to the

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(EACJ), where she serves as the "Principal Judge". In October 2019, she was named to sit on the Uganda Court of Appeal, pending approval by the

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