She took the oath alongside newly elected judges from Ghana, Brazil, Tunisia, and India.
Lan Anh is the first Vietnamese national and the first woman from Southeast Asia to hold this position in the 30-year history of ITLOS, a historic milestone in Vietnam's participation in international judicial institutions.
At the 36th Meeting of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) held in New York in June, she was elected an ITLOS judge for the 2026-2035 term in the first round of voting, receiving the most votes in the Asia-Pacific region.
