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Joan E. Donoghue (born December 12 1957) is an American jurist and a Judge on the International Court of Justice. She was elected to that post in 2010.Donoghue graduated from the University of California Santa Cruz with honors degrees in Russian Studies and in Biology in 1978 and the Boalt Hall School of Law of the University of California Berkeley with her Juris Doctor in 1981. In the 1980s Donoghue acted as attorney-advisor for the US in Nicaragua v.