Aminatta Lois Runeni N'gum (born 7 June 1953) is a Zimbabwean-Gambian judge. She has been a judge for the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals since 2012. Personal life and education Annie Lois Runeni Ruredzo was born on 7 June 1953 in Salisbury, Rhodesia (present day Harare, Zimbabwe). She met Gambian economist and ambassador Alieu Momodou N'gum in 1974 while studying in the United Kingdom, and they married in 1981. She was raised as a Christian, but she converted to Islam upon marriage. The couple had four children together, one of whom died in a traffic collision in 2011. N'gum graduated from Keele University in 1978 with a degree in law and sociology. She graduated from Leiden University in the Netherlands with a master's degree in public international law in 2005. N'gum is a member of the International Association of Women Judges, the African Ambassadors' Spouses Association, the Mhina Tumaini Foundation, the Public Policy Council of the Tahirih Justice Center, and THIS for Diplomats. Legal career N'gum worked in the Gambian judiciary for much of her career. She was a senior magistrate from 1980 to 1990 and then Master of the Supreme Court from 1990 to 1994. She began a private law practice in 1994, continuing until 1998. She was then first judicial secretary from 1998 to 1999. She was a legal officer for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda from 1999 to 2009. She returned to private practice from 2009 to 2010, and she was a judge on the Gambian Court of Appeal from 2010 to 2011. N'gum was nominated as a judge for International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals by the Gambian government in 2011, and she began her tenure in 2012. References Living people 1953 births 20th-century Gambian judges 20th-century women judges 21st-century Gambian judges 21st-century women judges Gambian judges of United Nations courts and tribunals Gambian women judges Gambian women lawyers