Human rights, gender parity, judge. The chapter traces the beginning of a career of a girl who was born and raised in a small village in the Republic of Botswana. It demonstrates the resilience that came with being born into a family that believed in the education of the girl child, even under cultural and societal constraints. This village girl rose above adversity, studied law, became a judge at domestic and regional levels, and ended up being a judge in the highest permanent criminal court in the world, the International Criminal Court.