Domitille Barancira is a Burundian judge who chaired the Constitutional Court from 1998 until 2006.
She worked as a judge between 1983 and 1996, acting as deputy chair of the Supreme Court from 1992 until 1996.
She was also head of the Commission of Reform and Modernization of the Burundian Justice System.
[4] In 1997, Barancira told Agence France-Presse that 17 people who had been sentenced to death as a result of ethnic violence following the assassination of President Melchior Ndadaye in 1993 had appealed their sentences unsuccessfully.
[3] In the 2000s, she became one of Burundi's foremost campaigners for women's rights alongside Catherine Mabobori, Vestine Mbundagu, Marie-Christine Ntagwirumugara and Sabine Sabimbona.