...2003, following 4 days and 21 rounds of secret balloting by the 85 states then eligible to vote in the Assembly of States Parties, the inaugural 18-member bench of the International Criminal Court was chosen from among 10 female and 33 male candidates. Elected, as follows, were 7 women and 11 men: Elizabeth Odio Benito (Costa Rica), Rene Blattmann (Bolivia), Maureen Harding Clark (Ireland); Fatoumata
Dembele Diarra (Mali), Adrian Fulford (United Kingdom), Karl Hudson-Phillips (Trinidad and Tobago), Claude Jorda (France), Hans-Peter Kaul (Germany), Philippe Kirsch (Canada), Erkki Kourula (Finland); Akua Kuenyehia (Ghana); Georghios Pikis (Cyprus), Navanethem Pillay (South Africa), Mauro Politi (Italy), Tuiloma Neroni Slade (Samoa), Sang-hyun Song (Republic of Korea), Sylvia Helena de Figueiredo Steiner (Brazil), and Anita Usacka (Latvia).(Prior February 7 posts are here and here.)
