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Sauda Mjasiri

East African Court of Justice (EACJ)

Justice Sauda Mjasiri is a Tanzanian judge who was appointed to the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) on February 1st, 2019, during the 20th Ordinary Heads of State Summit of the East African Community (EAC). Justice Mjasiri worked in the trial and appellate litigation at the Tanzania Legal Corporation for twenty years before working at the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank between 1998 and 2004. While at the Legal Corporation, she offered voluntary legal services to women, and while at the Bank, she served as executive assistant to the President, as well as a senior legal officer.
Mjasiri also established and directed a compliance unit. Justice Mjasiri was elected to the High Court of Tanzania in 2004, where she served in both the main registry as well as the commercial division for four years before being appointed as judge of the Tanzanian Court of Appeal in February 2008. She took her oath for the East African Court on the same day she was appointed and was assigned to the Appellate Division.

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