Lima, Peru. In 2019, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the East European University in Tbilisi, Georgia. Ušacka is married to Peter Wilkitzki. Career Starting in 1975, after graduating from the University of Latvia, Ušacka worked as a legal academic. She began her academic career as an assistant at the University of Latvia Department for Introduction to General Law, but was successively promoted to Main Lecturer (1980), Reader (1982), Head of Department (1989), Doctor of Sciences (Dr. iur) (1992) and academic title of Docent (1993). She became an associate professor of the Riga Graduate School of Law in 1999 and a full Professor at the University of Latvia in 2002. Later, Ušacka's academic career also included visiting professorships in 1999 at the Robert Schuman University (Strasbourg) lecturing on Constitutional Development in Latvia and Human Rights, and in 2002–2003 at the Lewis and Clark Law School where she taught Comparative Constitutional Law. In 1993, two years after the Republic of Latvia restored its independence from the USSR, the UNICEF Latvian National Committee (LNC) was established. Between 1994 and 1996, Ušacka was the executive director of the Latvian branch of UNICEF, where she focused on children's rights issues in both a national and international context and assessed Latvia's compliance with the treaty on the Rights of the Child. By June 1994, the Latvian parliament, the Saeima, had passed amendments to the law “On Judicial Power” which established Latvia's first Constitutional Court. In 1996, upon the proposal of the Saeima deputies, Ušacka was elected to serve for a ten-year term as one of the first of six judges on the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia. Between 1998 and 2001, Ušacka was also the director of a cooperation program between the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College (USA) and the Faculty of Law of the University of Latvia. Together with a counterpart from Lewis & Clark, Ušacka authored the original grant proposal, which allowed the program to be funded by a three-year, $120,000 grant from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Information Agency. In 2002, Ušacka was nominated by the Republic of Latvia as a judicial candidate in elections for the newly established International Criminal Court, located in The Hague, The Netherlands. Ušacka was one of eighteen judges, from a total of 43 candidates, elected in February 2003 by the