Julius Ansah (born 1950) is a Ghanaian judge who served as a Justice of the

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from 2004 to 2020. Ansah was nominated to the Supreme Court of Ghana by John Kufuor, who was then the

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. He was sworn in by John Kufuor in October 2004 along with two other new Supreme Court judges, Felix Michael Lartey and

Richard Twum Aninakwah Richard Twum Aninakwah is a retired Ghanaian Supreme Court Judge. He served on the Supreme Court bench from 2004 to 2008. Biography Aninakwah was born on 28 January 1938. He had his secondary education at Prempeh College and was a contemporary ...

. As the most senior judge at the time, he acted as the

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between 20 December 2019 and 7 January 2020 following the retirement of

Sophia Akuffo Sophia Abena Boafoa Akuffo (born 20 December 1949) was the Chief Justice of Ghana from 2017 until 20 December 2019. Prior to that, she had already been a Judge in the Supreme Court of Ghana since 1995. Education The daughter of a Presbyter ...

as the Chief Justice.

Kwasi Anin-Yeboah Kwasi Anin-Yeboah (born 24 May 1953) is a Ghanaian judge and the current Chief Justice of Ghana. In December 2019, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo nominated Justice Anin-Yeboah as the Chief Justice of Ghana. Early life and education An ...

succeeded Sophia Akuffo as the next Chief Justice. During 2018 when he also served as the acting Chief Justice, he wrote a letter of apology to nine judges whose homes were to be affected by the National Cathedral Project envisaged by the

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. Two of the affected judges, Mariama Owusu and

Avril Lovelace-Johnson Avril Lovelace-Johnson is a Ghanaian judge. She was nominated for the position of a Supreme Court of Ghana judge in November 2019 and received parliamentary approval in December 2019. She was sworn in on 17 December 2019. She has been on the ben ...

later joined him on the Supreme Court in December 2019.

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