Elisabeth Kayissan Ekoué Pognon (born 1937) is Benin's first female judge, first woman member of its supreme court, and the first woman to be elected president of its stand-alone constitutional court.
She was born Elisabeth Kayissan Ekoué (Pognon is her married name) in 1937.
[1][2] She was educated at secondary schools in Lomé, Togo, and Dakar, Senegal.
[1][3] In 1965, Pognon joined the magistrature in Benin, becoming the country's first woman judge.
[1][3] In 1993, she became the first woman to be appointed as a judge to the new stand-alone constitutional court in Benin, and later that year was elected president of it by her fellow members, a position which she held until 1998, when she was succeeded by Conceptia Denis Ouinsou.