The 2018-2020 Board of Directors is comprised of the Executive Council and Board of Directors with 18 members representing the five regions of IAWJ membership.
Board members are elected by the membership at each Biennial Conference. Executive Officers are elected by the full board members every two years.
Executive Council
President – Hon. Vanessa Ruiz, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Washington DC, United States
President-Elect – Hon. Susan Glazebrook, Supreme Court, Auckland, New Zealand
Vice President – Hon. Binta Nyako, Federal High Court, Abuja, Nigeria
Vice President –Hon. Margarita Beatriz Luna Ramos, Supreme Court of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Secretary/Treasurer – Hon. Mina Sougrati, Administrative Tribunal of Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco
Past President, ex officio – Hon. Susana Medina, Vice President, Superior Court of Justice of Entre Rios, Argentina
Executive Director – Christie R. Jones, ABD, International Association of Women Judges, Washington DC, United States
Founder, ex officio – Hon. Arline Pacht, International Association of Women Judges, Washington DC, United States
Board of Directors
(Sub-Saharan) Africa
Hon. Ngozi Priscilla Emehelu, High Court of Enugu, Enugu, Nigeria
Hon. Hannah Okwengu, Court of Appeals, Nairobi, Kenya
Asia and the Pacific
Hon. Maria Theresa M. Arcega, Sandiganayan, Quezon City, Philippines
Hon. Robyn Tupman, District Court of New South Wales, Haymarket, New South Wales, Australia
Europe, Middle East, and North Africa
Hon. Gloria Poyatos Matas, High Court of Justice of the Canary Islands, Las Palmas de Gran Canarias, Spain
Hon. Saida Chebili, Court of First Instance, Sousse, Tunisia
Latin America and the Caribbean
Hon. Esther Elisa Agelan (ret.), Supreme Court of the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Hon. Jovita Alicia Rojas de Bortoletto, Court of Civil and Commercial and Labor Appeal of the Judicial District of the Department of Cordillera, Asunción, Paraguay
North America
Hon. Julie Thorburn, Superior Court of Justice, Toronto, Canada
Hon. Lisette Shirdan-Harris, Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, Pennsylvania, United States
Board of Managerial Trustees
Hon. Ann Walsh Bradley, Wisconsin Supreme Court, Madison, WI, United States
Amb. Mari Carmen Aponte, United States Department of State, Washington, DC, United States
Hon. Rosemary Barkett, Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, Miami, FL, United States
Hon. Anna Blackburne-Rigsby, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Washington, DC, United States
Caroline Bettinger-Lopez, Professor, University of Miami School of Law, Miami, FL, United States
Hon. Judith C. Chirlin (ret.), Los Angeles Superior Court, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Hon. Tamarin Dunnet, Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Toronto, Canada
Katherine L. Garrett, Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, Washington, DC, United States
Judith W. Gilmore, Mediator, USAID (ret.), Washington, DC, United States
Hon. M. Margaret McKeown, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, San Diego, CA, United States
Hon. Arline Pacht (ret.), Founder of IAWJ, Washington, DC, United States
Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, United States
Hon. Marietta S. Robinson, Harvard University, Washington, DC, United States
Joanne Rosen, Associate Lecturer, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States
Virginia Sloan, Washington, DC, United States
Hon. Carolyn Engel Temin (ret.), Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia, PA, Unites States
Hon. Vanessa Ruiz, ex officio, District Court of Columbia Court of Appeals, Washington, DC, United States
Christie R. Jones, ABD, ex officio, Executive Director, International Association of Women Judges, Washington DC, United States