Joe Reindorf (1924 – 1996) was a Ghanaian historian, lawyer and politician. He served in the third republic as Attorney General and minister for Justice of

Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and Tog ...

Early life and education

Formerly a pupil of

Achimota School Achimota School ( /ɑːtʃimoʊtɑː/ ), formerly Prince of Wales College and School at Achimota, later Achimota College, now nicknamed Motown, is a co-educational boarding school located at Achimota in Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana. The school wa ...

, his contemporaries included K. B. Asante,

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and

R. R. Amponsah Reginald Reynolds Amponsah (30 December 1919 – 3 June 2009) was a potter and Ghanaian politician of the first Parliament of the Second Republic representing the Mampong North Constituency in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He was a Minister ...

. He was a research student in history at

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in 1951, completing his studies in 1956 and finishing a law degree at the same time.

Career

He was called to the English bar in 1954. He returned to Ghana after his research studies in 1956 to enter into private legal practice. In 1962 he joined the

University of Ghana The University of Ghana is a public university located in Accra, Ghana. It the oldest and largest of the thirteen Ghanaian national public universities. The university was founded in 1948 as the University College of the Gold Coast in the Br ...

as a research fellow in history. This stint ended in 1966 when he went back into private practice. He was president of the

Ghana Bar Association The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) is a professional association of lawyers in Ghana, including what used to be called solicitors and barristers but are now called legal practitioners, as well as magistrates. By convention all lawyers admitted to pr ...

in 1970–1971.

Politics

During the inception of the third republic in 1979, he was appointed Attorney General and minister for Justice in the Limann led government. He resigned after he was moved to the ministry of Local Government in a 1981 ministerial reshuffle. He was replaced by his deputy

Archibald Lartey Djabatey Archibald Lartey Djabatey was a Ghanaian lawyer and former Attorney General of Ghana. Djabatey hailed from Odumase Krobo in the Eastern Region of Ghana. He received his bachelor of laws degree from the University of London and was called to the ...

Death

He died in 1996 at the age of 72.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Reindorf, Joe Date of birth unknown Justice ministers of Ghana Attorneys General of Ghana 20th-century Ghanaian lawyers Academic staff of the University of Ghana People's National Party (Ghana) politicians Alumni of Achimota School Alumni of the University of Cambridge 1924 births 1996 deaths

Early life and education

Career

Politics

Death

See also

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