Miatta Samba is a Sierra Leonean judge who was elected to the bench of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2020. She holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, and Master of Laws degrees from Centre for Human Rights, the University of Pretoria in South Africa and Centre for Petroleum Law and Policy, the University of Dundee in Scotland. Miatta was called to the bar in Sierra Leone in 1999 and from 2002 to 2006 she worked as an Investigator, Prosecution Witness Management Coordinator, and Associate Prosecutor at the Office of the Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone.

Miatta Samba worked in various capacities between 2006 and 2015; as a member of a sub-committee of the Sierra Leone Law Reform Commission that focused on gender law reform, Senior Prosecutor at the Anti-Corruption Commission, and Commissioner on the Commission of Inquiry established to investigate the untimely death of the then Chief Immigration Officer, Ms. Gloria Newman Smart. She was elevated to the Court of Appeal in 2019 and a year after was appointed as a judge of the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone.

Between 2006 and 2010, Miatta served as a Field Operations Officer for the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) assigned to the Uganda Field Office. Her mandate in this position was to protect and promote the rights of witnesses and survivors who were participating in an accountability process in both Sierra Leone and Uganda. Judge Samba is a lecturer at the University of Sierra Leone. A position she has occupied since 2003. She is a member of Legal Access Through Women Yearning for Equal Rights and Social Justice, the leading gender equality advocacy organization in Sierra Leone and the chair of the Legal Aid Board. She is recognized for rendering judgments that have significantly contributed to accountability for sexual and gender- based violence.