Justice Marie Mukamulisa is a Rwandan jurist who was appointed judge of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in July 2016 for a six-year term. Justice Mukamulisa received her law degree in Civil Law from the National University of Rwanda, and her LLB in Common Law from the University of Moncton, New Brunswick. She also has a Masters in Genocide Studies and Prevention, which she obtained from the Center for Conflict Management at the National University of Rwanda.

Before serving in the African Court, Mukamulisa held many high-level positions. For example, she was one of the twelve commissioners who drafted the Rwanda post-genocide Constitution and was a lecturer of Comparative Law at the National University of Rwanda. She was also Legal Counsel and Executive Secretary of the Consultative Council of Support Organizations for Basic Initiatives (CCOAIB), an umbrella organization of NGOs in Rwanda.

Justice Mukamulisa was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of Rwanda in 2003 and used her platform to shed a light on women and children’s issues within the judiciary. In 2015, she became a member of the High Judicial Council of Rwanda, as well as several international judicial networks such as the International Hague Network of Judges (IHNJ). She was appointed judge of the African Court during the 27th African Union Summit.