Taghreed Hikmat

Taghreed Hikmat (born 1945) is a Jordanian judge. She was Jordan's first female judge when she started in 1998. She was also a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda from 2003 to 2011. Later she served in the Senate of Jordan. Since October 2020 she has been a judge on the Constitutional Court of Jordan.

Career

Hikmat was born in Zarqa in 1945.[1] She studied law at Damascus University between 1969 and 1973.[2] In 1982 Hikmat started working as a lawyer representing clients before the courts. In 1996 she became assistant to the Attorney General of the Civil Rights Division. In 1998 Hikmat was appointed as a judge at the Court of Appeal.[3] This made her the first woman judge in Jordan.[2] Between 2002 and 2003 she was a judge on the Higher Criminal Court.[3]

In June 2003 Hikmat was one of 18 judges elected by the United Nations General Assembly to serve ad litem at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).[4] In September the next year Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, appointed her as a temporary judge on the tribunal.[5] Hikmat was a judge at the ICTR until 2011, and was a presiding judge from 2009 to 2010.[3]

Hikmat was a member of the Senate of Jordan during the 26th and the 27th sessions.[1][6] On 6 October 2020 she was appointed a judge on the Constitutional Court of Jordan.[7] She was sworn in by King Abdullah II of Jordan on 19 October 2020.[8]

Hikmat has criticized Jordanian political parties for having superficial political programmes that only aim at women for their votes. Hikmat has noted several challenges to political participation of women in Jordan, including a patriarchal system, stereotypical views on gender roles and a lack of economic independence from men.[9]

References
  1. "Former Upper House, Upper House Twenty-sixth, Taghreed Hikmat". Jordan Politics. Archived from the original on 15 May 2019.
  2. "Taghreed Hikmat". Who is she?. Archived from the original on 13 November 2016.
  3. "Hon. Taghreed Hikmet". International Association of Women Judges. Archived from the original on 22 October 2017.
  4. "Election of 18 ad litem judges to the ICTR". United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals. 26 June 2003. Archived from the original on 25 October 2019.
  5. "Four new judges named to join UN war crimes tribunal for Rwanda". United Nations. 9 September 2004. Archived from the original on 4 October 2016.
  6. "Upper House Twenty-seventh, Taghreed Hikmat". Jordan Politics. Archived from the original on 10 July 2018.
  7. "Royal Decree appoints Hikmat as member of Constitutional Court". The Jordan Times. 7 October 2020. Archived from the original on 8 October 2020.
  8. "Jordan- King swears in Hikmat as member of Constitutional Court". MENA FN. 19 October 2020. Archived from the original on 15 November 2020.
  9. Dana Al Emam (8 June 2015). "'Overcoming patriarchal mindsets key to ensuring women's participation'". The Jordan Times. Archived from the original on 31 October 2020.
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