2020 International Criminal Court judges election
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Six judges of the International Criminal Court were elected during the 19th session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court held from 7 to 17 December 2020 in New York.[1] The judges were elected for terms of nine years and took office on 11 March 2021.
The judges elected at this session replaced six judges whose terms ended in 2021. Four of those judges had been elected in 2011 for full nine-year terms; the other two had been elected in separate elections in 2013 and in 2015 to replace two judges elected in 2011 who had resigned. The newly elected judges will serve for nine years until 2030.
The election was governed by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Its article 36(8)(a) states that "[t]he States Parties shall, in the selection of judges, take into account the need, within the membership of the Court, for:
- (i) The representation of the principal legal systems of the world;
- (ii) Equitable geographical representation; and
- (iii) A fair representation of female and male judges."
Furthermore, article 36(3)(b) and 36(5) provide for two lists:
- List A contains those judges that "[h]ave established competence in criminal law and procedure, and the necessary relevant experience, whether as judge, prosecutor, advocate or in other similar capacity, in criminal proceedings";
- List B contains those who "[h]ave established competence in relevant areas of international law such as international humanitarian law and the law of human rights, and extensive experience in a professional legal capacity which is of relevance to the judicial work of the Court".
Each candidate has to belong to exactly one list. A minimum of nine judges elected from list A and five judges elected from list B is to be maintained on the court.
Further rules of election were adopted by a resolution of the Assembly of States Parties in 2004.[2]
Judges remaining in office
The following judges were scheduled to remain in office beyond 2021:[3]
| Judge | Nationality | List A or B | Regional criteria | Gender | |||||||||
| List A | List B | African | Asian | E. European | GRULAG | WEOG | Female | Male | |||||
| Reine Alapini-Gansou |  Benin |
X | X | X | |||||||||
| Solomy Balungi Bossa |  Uganda |
X | X | X | |||||||||
| Antoine Kesia-Mbe Mindua |  Democratic Republic of the Congo |
X | X | X | |||||||||
| Tomoko Akane |  Japan |
X | X | X | |||||||||
| Chung Chang-ho |  South Korea |
X | X | X | |||||||||
| Piotr Hofmański |  Poland |
X | X | X | |||||||||
| Péter Kovács |  Hungary |
X | X | X | |||||||||
| Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza |  Peru |
X | X | X | |||||||||
| Rosario Salvatore Aitala |  Italy |
X | X | X | |||||||||
| Marc Pierre Perrin de Brichambaut |  France |
X | X | X | |||||||||
| Kimberly Prost |  Canada |
X | X | X | |||||||||
| Bertram Schmitt |  Germany |
X | X | X | |||||||||
| 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 7 | |||||
Nomination process
The nomination period of judges for the 2020 election lasted from 6 January to 30 March 2020.[1] It was first extended to 30 April on an emergency basis due to the COVID-19 pandemic[4] and then extended once more on a regular basis because the required number of Asian and Eastern European candidates had not been nominated.[5] A second Eastern European candidate was nominated during this second extension period, but no further Asian candidates were nominated, and thus the number of Asian candidates remained below the required number. The following persons were nominated:[6]
| Candidate | Nationality | List A or B | Regional criteria | Gender | |||||||||
| List A | List B | African | Asian | E. European | GRULAG | WEOG | Female | Male | |||||
| Althea Violet Alexis-Windsor |  Trinidad and Tobago |
X | X | X | |||||||||
| Andrés Bernardo Barreto González |  Colombia |
X | X | X | |||||||||
| Ishaq Usman Bello |  Nigeria |
X | X | X | |||||||||
| Haykel Ben Mahfoudh |  Tunisia |
X | X | X | |||||||||
| Khosbayar Chagdaa |  Mongolia |
X | X | X | |||||||||
| Jasmina Ćosić Dedović |  Bosnia and Herzegovina |
X | X | X | |||||||||
| María del Socorro Flores Liera |  Mexico |
X | X | X | |||||||||
| Gberdao Gustave Kam |  Burkina Faso |
X | X | X | |||||||||
| Joanna Korner |  United Kingdom |
X | X | X | |||||||||
| Gocha Lordkipanidze |  Georgia |
X | X | X | |||||||||
| Laurence Massart |  Belgium |
X | X | X | |||||||||
| Prosper Milandou |  Republic of the Congo |
X | X | X | |||||||||
| Ariela Peralta Distéfano |  Uruguay |
X | X | X | |||||||||
| Íñigo Francisco Alberto Salvador Crespo |  Ecuador |
X | X | X | |||||||||
| Miatta Maria Samba |  Sierra Leone |
X | X | X | |||||||||
| Mônica Jacqueline Sifuentes |  Brazil |
X | X | X | |||||||||
| Viktor Panagiotis Tsilonis |  Greece |
X | X | X | |||||||||
| Sergio Gerardo Ugalde Godínez |  Costa Rica |
X | X | X | |||||||||
| 10 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 10 | |||||
