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Rose Constance Owusu is a Ghanaian former Justice of the
Supreme Court of Ghana The Supreme Court of Ghana is the highest judicial body in Ghana. Ghana's 1992 constitution guarantees the independence and separation of the Judiciary from the Legislative and the Executive arms of government.1992 Constitution Article 125( ...
. She served on the Supreme Court bench from 2008 to 2014.


Early life and education

Owusu was born on 24 August 1944 at
Koforidua Koforidua, also popularly known as K-dua or Kofcity, is a city and the capital of Eastern Region in southern Ghana. Koforidua was founded in 1875 by migrants from Ashanti. It is also called New Juaben. The city has a settlement city proper popu ...
. Between 1958 and 1964, she attended Wesley Girls' High School and Aburi Girls Senior High School. She had her legal training at 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 ...
, where she earned her
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, and at the Ghana School of Law, where she had her Qualifying Certificate. She was called to the bar in 1969.


Career

Owusu was appointed as a State Attorney in the Attorney-General's Department in March 1973. After working in that capacity for three years, she was promoted to the rank of Senior State Attorney, Second- in-Command in 1976 and later elevated to the position of Principal State Attorney in 1983. On 19 September 1989 she was appointed to the Bench as a justice of the High Court. After a decade of service to the High Court bench she was appointed an Appeals Court judge in 1999. She served in that capacity until 2008 when she was appointed as justice of the
Supreme Court of Ghana The Supreme Court of Ghana is the highest judicial body in Ghana. Ghana's 1992 constitution guarantees the independence and separation of the Judiciary from the Legislative and the Executive arms of government.1992 Constitution Article 125( ...
. She retired in 2014.


Personal life

Owusu is a Christian.


See also

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List of judges of the Supreme Court of Ghana This is a list of the judges of the Supreme Court of Ghana. The Constitution of Ghana provides for the court to be made up of the Chief Justice of Ghana and not less than nine other Justices of the Supreme Court. It shall be duly constituted by a ...
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Supreme Court of Ghana The Supreme Court of Ghana is the highest judicial body in Ghana. Ghana's 1992 constitution guarantees the independence and separation of the Judiciary from the Legislative and the Executive arms of government.1992 Constitution Article 125( ...


References

Living people University of Ghana alumni Ghana School of Law alumni Alumni of Aburi Girls' Senior High School Justices of the Supreme Court of Ghana 1944 births {{Africa-law-bio-stub