Ntyam Mengue

Mengue worked as a deputy public prosecutor in Sangmélima and Douala between 1982 and 1987.^[2] In 1990, she became President of the Court of First Instance in Yaoundé and then in 1992 Vice President of the Court of Appeal.^[2][1] In 1998 she became a Counsellor of the Supreme Court of Cameroon.^[2] In 2001, she was one of sixty four judges nominated as a permanent judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.^[3]

Mengue was President of the Administrative section of the Supreme Court from 2010 until 2015, and has been President of the Court's Commercial Section since 2015.^[2][4] She has been a member of the National Commission of Human Rights and Freedoms of Cameroon since 2003,^[2] where she has acted as rapporteur.^[4][1]

Mengue was elected as a judge of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights for a six-year term in July 2016 at the African Union summit in Kigali.^[4][5]

Mengue is a member of the Association of Cameroon Female Lawyers and the Christian Women's Association of the Cameroon Presbyterian Church.^[4] She is fluent in French and English. She has 6 children: 2 sons, 2 daughters and 2 step daughters^[4]