Solome Bossa was born on 14 April 1956 in Nsambya Hospital, in Uganda's capital city of Kampala.
[7][8] Bossa has been a human rights activist since 1980 and founded non-profit organisation including the East African Centre for Constitutional Development, the Uganda Network on HIV, AIDS, Ethics and the Law and the Uganda Law Society.
[7][8][6][9] Bossa was a judge on the East African Court of Justice from 2001 until 2006 and on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda from 2003 until 2013.
[6] In 2014, Bossa was elected Judge of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, for a six-year term.
[11] In 2014, Bossa was one of the judges who annulled Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act for not being passed with the required quorum.