Christopher Izama Madrama
Christopher Izama Madrama is a Ugandan lawyer and judge, on the Supreme Court of Uganda,. He was appointed to the Supreme court on 31 October 2022.
Background and education
He was born in Uganda, circa 1962. He studied law at Makerere University, Uganda's largest and oldest public university, graduating in 1989 with a Bachelor of Laws degree. The next year, he received a Diploma in Legal Practice, from the Law Development Centre, in Kampala, the national capital. He was then admitted to the Uganda Bar. Later, he obtained a Master of Laws degree in Women's Law, from the University of Zimbabwe.Work experience
In 1990, he took up employment as a state attorney, in the Uganda Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, working in that capacity until 1999. He was then elevated to Principal State Attorney.Later in 1999, he left the Justice ministry and joined the Law Development Centre as a Senior Legal Officer. From 2001 until 2010, Christopher Madrama was a Principal Legal Associate at Katende Ssempebwa and Company Advocates, a large firm in the city of Kampala, Uganda's capital. This was his last job in the private sector, prior to joining the bench.