Ntyam Mengue
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Ntyam Ondo Suzanne Mengue Zomo is a Cameroonian jurist who was elected to the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights for a six-year term in 2016.
Early life and education
Career
Mengue worked as a deputy public prosecutor in Sangmélima and Douala between 1982 and 1987. In 1990, she became President of the Court of First Instance in Yaoundé and then in 1992 Vice President of the Court of Appeal.{{cite web|url=http://allafrica.com/stories/201607260434.html|publisher=All Africa|title=Africa: Justice Suzanne Mengue Elected African Judge|work=Cameroon Tribune|date=25 July 2016|accessdate=14 September 2017|first=Roland|last=Mbonteh}} In 1998 she became a Counsellor of the Supreme Court of Cameroon. In 2001, she was one of sixty four judges nominated as a permanent judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.{{cite news|url=https://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2001/sc7054.doc.htm|title=Security Council forwards names of 64 judges for former Yugoslavia tribunal to General Assembly|date=27 April 2001|publisher=United Nations}}
Mengue was President of the Administrative section of the Supreme Court from 2010 until 2015, and has been President of the Court's Commercial Section since 2015.{{cite web|url=http://en.african-court.org/index.php/2-uncategorised/807-justice-ntyam-ondo-mengue-cameroon|title=Justice Ntyam Ondo Mengue - Cameroon|publisher=African Court on Human and People's Rights}} She has been a member of the National Commission of Human Rights and Freedoms of Cameroon since 2003,{{cite web|language=French|url=http://www.cameroon-info.net/article/cameroun-portrait-mme-suzanne-mengue-magistrat-hors-hierarchie-a-la-cour-supreme-du-cameroun-269556.html|title=Cameroun - Portrait: Mme Suzanne MENGUE, Magistrat hors hiérarchie à la Cour Suprême du Cameroun, élue Juge de la Cour Africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples|first=Dominique Ngou|last=Pekassa|date=6 September 2016|accessdate=14 September 2017|work=Cameroon-Info}} where she has acted as rapporteur.
Mengue was elected as a judge of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights for a six-year term in July 2016 at the African Union summit in Kigali.{{cite web|url=http://africa24monde.com/actualite/view/suzanne-mengue-elue-juge-de-la-cour-africaine-des-droits-de-l-homme-et-des-peuples.html|language=French|title=Suzanne Mengue, élue Juge de la Cour africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples|publisher=Africa Monde|work=Cameroon Tribune|first=Gregoire|last=Djarmaila|accessdate=14 September 2017|date=16 July 2016}}
Personal life
Mengue is a member of the Association of Cameroon Female Lawyers and the Christian Women's Association of the Cameroon Presbyterian Church. She is fluent in French and English.
She has 6 children: 2 sons, 2 daughters and 2 step daughters
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