Prisca Matimba Nyambe

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Prisca Matimba Nyambe, SC is a Zambian judge who also sits on international tribunals.{{cite web |last1=Boffey |first1=Daniel |last2=Borger |first2=Julian |title=Ratko Mladić, ‘butcher of Bosnia’, loses appeal against genocide conviction |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/08/ratko-mladic-butcher-of-bosnia-loses-appeal-genocide-conviction |publisher=The Guardian |access-date=9 June 2021 |date=2021-06-08}}{{cite web |title=Pioneer African Women in Law |url=https://www.africanwomeninlaw.com/african-women-in-law/Prisca-Matimba-Nyambe |website=African Women in Law |access-date=9 June 2021 |language=en}} She is known for dissenting from the majority decisions of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) judgements which convicted Ratko Mladić and Zdravko Tolimir of war crimes.{{cite news |last1=Borger |first1=Julian |title=Prisca Matimba Nyambe: who is the dissenting judge in Ratko Mladić case? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/08/prisca-matimba-nyambe-who-is-the-dissenting-judge-in-ratko-mladic-case |access-date=9 June 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=2021-06-08 }}{{cite web |title=Zdravko Tolimir sentenced to life imprisonment for Srebrenica and Žepa crimes |url=https://www.icty.org/sid/11175 |publisher=International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia |access-date=9 June 2021}}

Nyambe was born on 31 December 1951 in Zambia and studied law at the University of Zambia, graduating in 1975.

She was a resident magistrate in Kabwe, Zambia from 1978 to 1980, and a senior magistrate, in Harare and Gwelo, Zimbabwe, from 1980 to 1984.{{cite web |title=Judge Prisca Matimba Nyambe |url=https://www.irmct.org/en/about/judges/judge-prisca-matimba-nyambe |publisher=International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals |access-date=9 June 2021}}

From 1984 to 1992 she was legal counsel to the Bank of Zambia, and from 1992 to 1996 worked in private practice. In February 1996, she became a senior legal officer at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), in Arusha, Tanzania, rising to be general counsel to the ICTR, until 2006.

She was appointed a judge of the High Court of Zambia in 2006, retiring from the post in 2015. She became a Judge {{lang|la|ad litem}} of the ICTY in 2004, and has been a judge of the United Nations' International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals since 2011.

She served as a Council Member of the Law Association of Zambia from 1982 to 1994, being vice-chair in the final year. She sat on a Zambian Parliamentary Fact-Finding Committee into discriminatory laws against women.

She was granted the honour of being appointed a State Counsel by the President of Zambia, Levy Mwanawasa, in 2005.