Justice Monica Mugenyi is a Ugandan lawyer and judge of the Ugandan Court of Appeal/Constitutional Court. Justice Mugenyi received her Bachelor of Laws from Makerere University, Uganda, and a Master of Laws in International Trade Law from the University of Essex. She also holds a Diploma in Legal Practice, which she obtained from the Law Development Centre in Uganda. Prior to her work on the bench, Justice Mugenyi worked in the Office of the Attorney General and the Privatization Unit. From 1993 to 1999, she was a State Attorney in the Ministry of Justice and Attorney General’s Chambers. She then worked as Senior State Attorney before becoming a Legal Officer of the Privatisation & Utility Sector Reform Project from the World Bank and the International Development Association (IDA).

Justice Mugenyi has served as a Private Legal Consultant and was working as Manager of Corporate Services for the Uganda Road Fund when she was appointed to the High Court of Uganda. She was elected to the Land and Criminal Division of the High Court in September 2010 and was then appointed a judge of the First Instance Division of the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) three years later. The appointment took place during the East African Community Heads of State Summit in December 2013.
In July 2015, she began serving as the ‘Principal Judge’ of the Court and Administrative Head of the First Instance Division, making her the first woman to take on the role. Justice Mugenyi was later sworn in as Judge of the Court of Appeal by President Yoweri K. Museveni on December 10th, 2019, and ended her term with the EACJ a year later. Justice Mugenyi is a member of the Gayaza Old Girls Association and serves as the Chairperson of the East African Development Bank (EADB) Staff Appeals Tribunal. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb), UK.