Justice Solomy Balungi Bossa is a Ugandan judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Bossa was born in Kampala, Uganda, and studied Law at Makerere University, Uganda. She received her Bachelor of Laws degree with honors and attended Uganda’s Law Development Centre (LDC) to study for the bar examination. She left with a Post- Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice and was called to the bar in 1984. Bossa began her career as a lecturer at the LDC. After her father passed away in 1987, she became managing partner of his law firm while continuing to teach. As a lawyer, Bossa advocated for human rights and offered pro bono services.

Bossa joined the judiciary on the High Court bench in 1997 and was later nominated for the East African Court of Justice in Arusha, Tanzania. She was the first woman to join its bench after its inauguration in 2001, and she earned respect from her colleagues despite being the youngest of the inaugural bench of six judges. Bossa was later elected as an ad litem judge of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal (ICTR) and was sworn in during August 2003. Bossa served at the ICTR for nine and half years before returning to the Ugandan High Court in 2013 and being appointed to the Court of Appeal/Constitutional Court in the same year.

Outside of the courtroom, she served as the founding president of the East African Law Society, Vice-Chairperson of the International Bar Association Human Rights Institute, and as the first woman president of the Uganda Law Society. She was also the founding chairperson of the Kituo Cha Katiba and assisted in founding and leading the Uganda Network on Law, Ethics, and HIV/AIDS. Bossa was nominated for a position in the ICC in 2017 and took her oath of office in March 2018. She currently serves in the Appeals Chamber (AC). Outside of the courtroom, she continues to serve as a member of the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights, the International Association of Women Judges, and as an honorary member of the International Commission of Jurists.