Anita Ušacka (born 26 April 1952) is a Latvian and international judge and legal academic. She has been a judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia and of the Trial and Appeals Divisions of the International Criminal Court (ICC). She was President of the Appeals Division of the International Criminal Court in 2011/2012. She retired in 2015. Early life and education Ušacka was born on 26 April 1952 in Riga, Latvia, the only daughter of Arturs Ušackis and Anna Krontāle. She had two elder brothers, Ivars (b. 1944) and Juris (b. 1948). Ušacka has a son, Aleksejs Ušackis, born on 13 December 1980. Ušacka spent her childhood in Riga, Latvia, where she attended primary and secondary schools. She began university studies in 1970, at the Faculty of Law of the University of Latvia, specializing in Legal Sciences. She completed the degree in 1975. Ušacka later attended the Faculty of Law of Moscow State University, where she received a PhD in law (Candidate in Legal Sciences) in 1980. Ušacka's PhD thesis, which she defended in January that year, concerned legal aspects of the administration of industry in Latvia. In 1991, Ušacka studied human rights at the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France. In 1993–1994, she spent a year at the University of Notre Dame studying and conducting research on comparative law and human rights. During her tenure at this university, she created the first course on human rights for non-lawyers and on comparative law for the faculty. Following receipt of a fellowship to study comparative criminal law, she spent six months as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany in 1994. In 2006, Ušacka was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Lewis and Clark Law School in the United States, where she was the keynote speaker at Lewis & Clark's 2006 commencement. In her commencement address, she emphasized the importance of establishing a global system on the rule of law and for the protection of human rights. In 2015, she was awarded the distinction of Honorary Professor in Law of the Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola in Lima, Peru. At the same time, in recognition of her distinguished career as an international lawyer, she was awarded a diploma of the Interamerican Academy of International and Comparative Law as an Academic and Member of Honor in