After retiring from the federal judiciary , Wald was the United States 's representative to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia from 1999 to 2002 . She presided over numerous cases of people accused of genocide . Some of the accused included those involved in the Srebrenica massacre . On February 6 , 2004 , Wald was appointed by President Bush to the President 's Commission on Intelligence Capabilities of the U.S. Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction , an independent panel tasked with investigating U.S. intelligence surrounding the United States ' 2003 invasion of Iraq and Iraq 's weapons of mass destruction . The commission was co-chaired by Laurence Silberman , a fellow judge who worked with Wald on the bench of the District of Columbia Circuit Court . Silberman had a great deal of respect for Wald despite their ideological differences and did not hesitate to recommend her appointment to the bi-partisan commission . Wald agreed to serve on the Constitution Project 's Guantanamo Task Force in December 2010
Srebrenica massacre
Srebrenica massacre
Patricia Wald