| Anthony Carmona | |
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| Judge-elect of the International Criminal Court | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 11 March 2012 |
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| Appointed by | Assembly of States Parties |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Anthony Thomas Aquinas Carmona 7 March 1953 |
Anthony Thomas Aquinas Carmona is a High Court Judge at the Supreme Court of Trinidad and Tobago and a judge-elect of the International Criminal Court.
Anthony Carmona was born on 7 March 1953. He attended the University of the West Indies and the Sir Hugh Wooding Law School between 1973 and 1983. In 1989, he became a Senior State Attorney. From 1994 to 1999, he was first Assistant then Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions. From 2001 to 2004, he was an Appeals Counsel at the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha. In 2004, he was appointed a High Court Judge at the Supreme Court of Trinidad and Tobago.[1]
On 12 December 2011, he was elected as a judge of the International Criminal Court. He won the office in the first ballot in the Assembly of States Parties with 72 of 104 votes with 70 votes needed. He is due to take office on 11 March 2012.