Sylvia Helena de Figueiredo Steiner (born 19 January 1953) is a Brazilian judge who was a member of the International Criminal Court from 2003 to 2016.
Steiner was a member of the Brazilian delegation to the Preparatory Commission of the International Criminal Court from 1999 to 2002.
She was also a member of the Official Working Group on the Implementation of the Rome Statute in 2003, in Brazil.
Between 2005 and 2016,[3] Steiner served as the presiding judge of the trial chamber for the case of Jean-Pierre Bemba, the first case in which the ICC has found a high official directly responsible for the crimes of his subordinates, as well as the first to focus primarily on crimes of sexual violence committed in war.
[4] She left the court in 2016,[2] and the Bemba judgement was overturned on appeal [5][6] and gave rise to a compensation claim on the part of the accused on the basis that trial mismanagement had contributed to a miscarriage of justice.