Gabrielle Kirk Mc Donald
Gabrielle Anne Kirk McDonald (born April 12, 1942) is an American lawyer and jurist who currently serves as one of three American arbitrators on the Iran – United States Claims Tribunal seated in The Hague. She is a former judge at the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). McDonald was one of the first eleven judges elected by the United Nations to serve on the Yugoslav Tribunal and went on to become its President between 1997-1999, the only woman to occupy the position since its founding in 1994. As the presiding judge in Trial Chamber II, she issued the tribunal's verdict against Duško Tadić, the first international war crimes trial since the Nuremberg Trials and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. The Tadić case was also the first international war crimes trial involving charges of sexual violence.
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