Aminata Mallé Sanogo is a Malian politician and magistrate who was appointed Mediator of the Republic of Mali. Sanogo received her Master’s degree in Legal Sciences from the University of Dakar, and a Magistrate’s diploma from the National Center for Magistrates’ Training in Bamako, Mali. She worked in litigation for the General Secretariat of the Government before becoming an examining magistrate in 1983.

As a magistrate, she was put in charge of the cases of minors at the Bamako Court of First Instance. She also served as a substitute of the Public Prosecutor from 1985 to 1989, as examining magistrate of the 2nd Cabinet of Bamako’s Court of First Instance from 1989 to 1991, and as examining magistrate of the 1st Cabinet at the Special State Security Court in 1991. She then became President of the seconded section of the Court of First Instance of Commune IV of Bamako from 1992 to 1994.

From 1994 to 2000, she was President of the Commercial Court of Bamako, and she briefly served as President of the Court of First Instance of Commune III of Bamako towards the end of 2000. In 2001, she represented Mali at the ECOWAS Court of Justice, where she served as judge-advisor before becoming president of the Court from 2007 to 2009. She served as technical advisor to the Prime Minister’s office in August 2010, where she was in charge of the Governance Unit, and in 2015, she became Minister of Justice and Human Rights. She served in this capacity until July 2016 and became Secretary General on January 9th, 2017. Ms. Sanogo was appointed Mediator of the Republic of Mali on October 13th, 2020.