COUNCIL BLUFFS — Charles L. Smith, a Missouri Valley, Iowa, native and former chief judge of Iowa’s Fourth Judicial District, is one of 19 judges — and the only American — to be named international judges of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers.

The Specialist Chambers, which meets at The Hague in the Netherlands, has jurisdiction over crimes against humanity, war crimes and other crimes under Kosovo law.

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