Jotham Tumwesigye is a Ugandan lawyer and judge who has served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Uganda since 2009.
[2] Following his graduation from the Law Development Centre, he worked as a state attorney in the Uganda Ministry of Justice until 1981.
Later, he served as the Inspector General of Government and then as chairperson of the Uganda Human Rights Commission.
He also represented the Uganda judiciary on the "Judicial Service Commission", a position he took over from the former Chief Justice, Bart Magunda Katureebe.
[5] He previously served as chairman of the "Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration", a division of the Uganda Ministry of Internal Affairs.