Annie Noëlle Bahounoui Batende
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Annie Noëlle Bahounoui Batende (born January 25, 1963, in Douala), is a Cameroonian magistrate. She was appointed on August 10, 2020, as president of the Special Criminal Court (TCS). She is the first woman to hold this position since its creation in 2012.
Bahounoui Batende was born on January 25, 1963, in Douala.[1] She is the daughter of Léon Bahounoui Batende, a former senior Cameroonian civil servant, director of Customs (1971 to 1976), director of the Cameroonian Development Bank and deputy of the CPDM in the center, (1997 to 2002).[2]
After obtaining her baccalaureate at the Général-Leclerc high school in Yaoundé, she enrolled in the law faculty of the University of Paris and there, she obtained a Specialized Higher Studies Diploma in Law (DESS).[3]
She returned to Cameroon and failed the oral exam for the National School of Administration and Magistracy (ENAM) received at the Cameroonian embassy in France. She began a career as a notary and worked for a year at the real estate company as a legal advisor. She took the ENAM competition again, she was finally selected and joined the school in 1988.[3]