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Served from |
Name |
Previous judicial office |
Appointed by |
Served until |
Replacing |
Notes
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1
|
1960 |
Kobina Arku Korsah |
Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court |
Kwame Nkrumah |
December 1963 |
Inaugural |
Chief Justice of Ghana 1957–1963 Dismissed by Kwame Nkrumah[5]
|
2
|
1960 |
William Van Lare |
Appeal Court Judge 1957 |
December 1963 |
Inaugural |
Retired when Supreme Court acquitted Tawia Adamafio and others on treason charges
|
3
|
1960 |
Gilbert Granville Sharp |
Appeal Court Judge
|
1961 |
Inaugural |
|
4
|
1960 |
Julius Sarkodee-Addo[6] |
High Court Judge |
February 1966 |
Inaugural |
Chief Justice 1964–1966 Removed after coup d'état
|
5
|
July 1960[7] |
Augustus Molade Akiwumi[8] |
Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana (1958–1960) |
1961 |
Inaugural |
Speaker of Parliament of Ghana
|
6
|
15 September 1961[9] |
Samuel Azu Crabbe |
High Court Judge 1959
|
1966 |
|
Supreme Court was replaced by the Appeals Court in 1966
|
6
|
1971[10] |
Appeal Court Judge |
Edward Akufo-Addo |
1972 |
|
Supreme Court replaced by the Appeals Court in 1972 Chief Justice 1973–1977
|
7
|
15 September 1961[9] |
Kofi Adumua Bossman |
High Court Judge 2 July 1956 – 1962 |
Kwame Nkrumah |
2 March 1964 |
|
Dismissed 2 March 1964 by Nkrumah[11] Member of Constitutional Commission 1966–1967
|
8
|
1 September 1962[12] |
George Commey Mills-Odoi |
High Court Judge Jan 1960 Attorney General 1961–1962 |
February 1966 |
|
Acting Chief Justice (1965)[13][14]
|
9
|
1 September 1962[12][15] |
Nii Amaa Ollennu |
High Court Judge
|
1966 |
|
Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana 1969–1972
|
10
|
1 September 1962[12] |
Robert Samuel Blay |
Private legal practitioner |
2 March 1964 |
|
Dismissed 2 March 1964 by Nkrumah[11]
|
11
|
1 September 1962[12] |
Edward Akufo-Addo |
Private legal practitioner |
Kwame Nkrumah |
March 1964 |
|
Dismissed 2 March 1964 by Nkrumah.[11] Reinstated by the NLC as an Appeals Court judge. Chief Justice (1966–1970)
|
12
|
2 March 1964[16][17] |
Charles Acolatse |
High Court Judge |
1965 |
|
|
13
|
2 March 1964[16][17] |
Alfred Akainyah |
High Court Judge |
7 June 1966 |
William Van Lare |
|
14
|
2 March 1964[16][18][17] |
Fred Apaloo |
High Court Judge |
1966 |
Edward Akufo-Addo |
Supreme Court replaced by Appeals Court
|
14
|
1971[10] |
Appeal Court Judge |
Edward Akufo-Addo |
1972 |
|
Supreme Court replaced by Appeals Court
|
14
|
1980 |
Appeal Court Judge |
Hilla Limann |
1986 |
|
Chief Justice of Ghana 1977–1986 Chief Justice of Kenya 1993–1995
|
15
|
26 June 1964[19] |
William Bruce-Lyle |
High Court Judge |
Kwame Nkrumah |
7 June 1966 |
|
Supreme Court Judge in Zambia 1976–1980.[20]
|
16
|
26 June 1964[19] |
Johnson Boateng Siriboe[21] |
High Court Judge |
1966 |
|
Supreme Court was replaced by the Appeals Court in 1966 by the National Liberation Council
|
16
|
August 1970 |
Appeal Court Judge |
Edward Akufo-Addo |
1972[22] |
|
Dismissed by NRC Military government.
|
17
|
1965 |
G. S. Lassey |
High Court Judge |
Kwame Nkrumah |
1966 |
Charles Acolatse |
Supreme Court replaced by the Appeals Court by the then NLC government.
|
18
|
August 1970[23] |
E. A. L. Bannerman |
Legal adviser to Ghana Police and Ghana Airways (1967–70) |
Edward Akufo-Addo |
20 September 1972[22] |
|
Chief Justice 1970–1972 Sacked by NRC Military government.
|
19
|
August 1970[23] |
V. C. R. A. C. Crabbe[21] |
Interim Electoral Commissioner |
1972 |
|
|
19
|
24 October 1980[24] |
Appeal Court Judge |
1981 |
|
|
20
|
August 1970[23] |
Koi Larbi[25] |
Member of the Council of State |
1972[22] |
|
Sacked by NRC Military government.
|
21
|
1971 |
Kwamena Bentsi-Enchill |
Dean of the Faculty of law, University of Zambia |
30 September 1972[26] |
|
|
22
|
1971[10] |
H. K. Prempeh |
High Court Judge (1960–1964) Private legal practitioner |
1972 |
|
|
23
|
1971[10] |
P. D. Anin |
Appeal Court Judge (1969–1970) |
1972 |
|
Supreme Court replaced by Appeals Court
|
23
|
24 October 1980[24][27] |
Appeal Court Judge (1972–1980) |
Hilla Limann |
July 1982[28] |
|
Retired voluntarily in July 1982 Later became a justice of the Appeal Court of the Gambia
|
24
|
24 October 1980[27] |
N. Y. B. Adade[29] |
Attorney General 1969–1971 |
20 February 1996 |
|
Acting Chief Justice (1990 to 1991)[30][31]
|
25
|
24 October 1980[24][27] |
Philip Archer[32] |
Appeal Court judge |
1983 |
|
Retired in 1983
|
25
|
1991 |
Appointed Chairman of the Law Reform Commission following his retirement as a Supreme Court judge, was called out of retirement in 1991 to serve as Chief Justice of Ghana |
Jerry Rawlings |
21 February 1995 |
|
Chief of Justice 1991–1995
|
26
|
24 October 1980[24][27] |
E. N. P. Sowah |
Appeal Court Judge |
Hilla Limann |
1990[33] |
|
Chief Justice of Ghana 1986–1990
|
27
|
24 October 1980[27] |
J. N. K. Taylor[34] |
High Court Judge |
24 March 1990[35] |
|
|
28
|
September 1985[36][37][38] |
G. R. M. Francois[39] |
Appeal Court Judge |
Jerry Rawlings |
5 August 1994 |
|
|
29
|
1988[40][41] |
Isaac Wuaku[42] |
Appeal Court Judge |
29 December 1992 |
|
|
30
|
1988[40][41] |
Kweku Etrew Amua-Sekyi[43] |
Appeal Court Judge |
5 July 1996[44][45][46] |
|
|
31
|
1988[40][41] |
Isaac K. Abban |
Appeal Court Judge |
21 April 2001[47] |
|
Chief Justice of Seychelles 1990–1993 Chief Justice of Ghana. Died in office.
|
32
|
1989 |
Patrick Victor Osei-Hwere |
Appeal Court Judge |
19 October 1992[48] |
|
|
33
|
20 February 1990[49][50] |
G. E. K. Aikins |
Attorney General of Ghana |
2 September 1998[51] |
|
|
34
|
1990 |
Edward Wiredu[52] |
Appeals Court Judge |
2003 |
|
Chief Justice of Ghana 2001–2003
|
35
|
19 November 1991[53] |
Joyce Bamford-Addo |
Director of Public Prosecutions 2nd Deputy Speaker of the Consultative Assembly |
October 2004[54] |
|
First female justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana[55] and first female Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana
|
36
|
19 November 1991[56] |
Charles Hayfron-Benjamin |
Private legal practice |
4 April 1999 |
|
|
37
|
6 January 1993[57] |
Francis Kpegah |
Appeal Court Judge |
4 December 2008[58] |
|
Acting Chief Justice (25 March 2007 to15 June 2007)[59]
|
38
|
6 January 1993 |
A. K. B. Ampiah[60] |
Appeal Court Judge |
25 July 2003 |
|
|
39
|
22 February 1995 |
E. D. K. Adjabeng[60] |
Appeal Court Judge |
October 2002 |
|
Resigned in October 2002 on personal grounds
|
40
|
30 November 1995 |
George Kingsley Acquah[61] |
Appeals Court Judge |
25 March 2007 |
|
Chief Justice of Ghana. Died in office.
|
41
|
30 November 1995 |
Sophia Akuffo |
Private legal practitioner |
20 December 2019 |
|
Chief Justice (2017–2019)
|
42
|
30 November 1995[62] |
Isaac K. Amuah |
Appeal Court Judge |
19 August 1997 |
|
Died in office[63]
|
43
|
30 November 1995 |
William Atuguba |
State attorney |
1 July 2018 |
|
Acting Chief Justice (21 February 2017 to 19 June 2017)
23 years in Supreme Court
|
44
|
15 April 1999 |
John Debra Sapong[64] |
Appeal Court Judge |
2 June 2000 |
|
|
45
|
15 April 1999 |
Josiah Ofori Boateng[64] |
Appeal Court Judge |
4 January 2001 |
|
|
46
|
28 November 2000[65] |
Theodore Adzoe[66] |
Private legal practitioner |
31 October 2008 |
|
|
47
|
28 November 2000[65][67] |
George Lamptey |
Appeal Court Judge |
3 June 2002 |
|
|
48
|
19 March 2002[68] |
Kwame Afreh |
Appeal Court Judge |
John Kufuor |
September 2003[69] |
|
|
49
|
12 November 2002[70] |
Georgina Wood |
Appeal Court Judge 1991–2002 |
7 June 2017 |
|
Chief Justice 2007–2017
|
50
|
12 November 2002[70] |
Samuel Glenn Baddoo |
Appeal Court Judge |
3 March 2004 |
|
|
51
|
12 November 2002[70] |
Stephen Alan Brobbey |
Appeal Court Judge |
23 May 2012 |
|
|
52
|
12 November 2002[70] |
Seth Twum |
Private legal practitioner |
20 March 2007 |
|
|
53
|
21 May 2003[71][72] |
Anselmus Kludze[73] |
Professor of Law at the University of Ghana |
12 March 2004[72] |
|
|
54
|
16 September 2003[74][75] |
Samuel Date-Bah |
Special Adviser (Legal) at the Commonwealth Secretariat, London |
August 2014 |
|
55
|
14 May 2004[76] |
Tawia Modibo Ocran |
Professor of Law at the University of Ghana |
27 October 2008[77] |
|
Died in office
|
56
|
15 October 2004[78] |
Richard Aninakwah[79] |
Appeal Court Judge |
28 January 2008 |
|
|
57
|
15 October 2004[78] |
Julius Ansah[79] |
Appeal Court Judge |
2020 |
|
Acting Chief Justice (20 December 2019 to 7 January 2020)[80]
|
58
|
15 October 2004[78] |
Felix Lartey[79] |
Chief Justice of the Gambia |
April 2005 |
|
|
59
|
15 March 2006[81] |
Sophia Adinyira |
Appeal Court Judge |
30 July 2019[82] |
|
Judge on United Nations Appeals Tribunal 2009–2016
|
60
|
15 March 2006[83] |
Samuel Kwadwo Asiamah |
Appeal Court Judge |
2009 |
|
|
61
|
11 June 2008[84] |
Anin Yeboah |
Justice of the Court of Appeal (2003–2008) |
24 May 2023[85] |
|
Chief Justice (7 January 2020 to 24 May 2023)[86][87]
|
62
|
11 June 2008[84] |
Jones Dotse |
Appeal Court Judge Supreme Court Judge in the Gambia |
8 June 2023[88] |
|
Acting Chief Justice (24 May 2023 to 8 June 2023)[85]
|
63
|
11 June 2008[84] |
Paul Baffoe-Bonnie |
Appeal Court Judge |
Incumbent |
|
|
64
|
11 June 2008[84] |
Rose Constance Owusu |
Appeal Court Judge |
June 2014[89] |
|
|
65
|
31 October 2009[90] |
Vida Akoto-Bamfo |
Appeal Court Judge |
John Atta Mills |
14 February 2019[91] |
Tawia Modibo Ocran |
|
66
|
31 October 2009[90] |
Benjamin Aryeetey |
Appeal Court Judge |
2011 |
Theodore Adzoe |
|
67
|
31 October 2009[90] |
Nasiru Gbadegbe |
Appeal Court Judge |
8 December 2020[92][93] |
Francis Kpegah |
|
68
|
11 November 2012[94] |
Joseph Akamba |
Appeal Court Judge |
John Mahama |
2016 |
|
|
69
|
11 November 2012[94] |
Anthony Benin |
Appeal Court Judge |
January 2020[95][96] |
|
|
70
|
29 June 2015[97] |
Yaw Appau |
Appeal Court Judge |
August 2021 |
|
|
71
|
29 June 2015[97] |
Gabriel Pwamang |
Private legal practitioner |
Incumbent |
|
|
72
|
3 October 2018[98] |
Nene Amegatcher |
Private legal practitioner |
Nana Akufo-Addo |
28 July 2023[99] |
|
President of the Ghana Bar Association (2012–2016)
|
73
|
3 October 2018[98] |
Agnes Dordzie |
Appeal Court Judge |
2 October 2022[100] |
|
|
74
|
3 October 2018[98] |
Nii Ashie Kotey |
Professor of Law at the University of Ghana |
28 July 2023[99] |
|
|
75
|
3 October 2018[98] |
Samuel Marful-Sau |
Appeal Court Judge |
10 August 2021 |
|
Died in office[101]
|
76
|
17 December 2019[102][103] |
Mariama Owusu[104] |
Appeal Court Judge |
Incumbent |
Sophia Akuffo |
President of Ghana chapter, International Association of Women Judges, 2014
|
77
|
17 December 2019[102][103] |
Avril Lovelace-Johnson[104] |
Appeal Court Judge |
Incumbent |
Sophia Adinyira |
|
78
|
17 December 2019[102][103] |
Gertrude Tokornoo[104] |
Appeal Court Judge |
Incumbent |
Vida Akoto-Bamfo |
Vice-chair, e-Justice Committee Judicial Training Institute Board member
Chief Justice (Appointed on 12 June 2023)[105]
|
79
|
22 May 2020[106] |
Issifu Omoro Tanko Amadu |
Appeal Court Judge[96] |
Incumbent |
Julius Ansah[107] |
|
80
|
22 May 2020[108] |
Clemence Jackson Honyenuga |
Appeal Court Judge[96] |
4 September 2022[100] |
Anthony Benin[107] |
Although officially retired on 4 September 2022, he was granted some time by the Chief Justice (Anin Yeboah) to conclude a pending case.[109] He was removed from the case in February 2023.[110]
|
81
|
26 May 2020[3] |
Joy Henrietta Mensa-Bonsu |
Professor of Law at the University of Ghana[96] |
Incumbent |
|
|
82
|
26 May 2020[3] |
Yonny Kulendi |
Private legal practitioner[96] |
Incumbent |
Nasiru Sulemana Gbadegbe[107] |
|
83
|
28 December 2022[111][112]
|
Barbara Frances Ackah-Yensu
|
Appeal Court Judge[113]
|
Incumbent
|
Samuel Marful-Sau[113]
|
|
84
|
28 December 2022[111][112]
|
Samuel Kwame Adibu Asiedu
|
Appeal Court Judge[113]
|
Incumbent
|
Yaw Appau
|
|
85
|
5 April 2023[100]
|
George Kingsley Koomson
|
Appeal Court Judge
|
Incumbent
|
Agnes Dordzie
|
|
86
|
5 April 2023[100]
|
Ernest Gaewu
|
High Court Judge
|
Incumbent
|
Clemence Jackson Honyenuga
|
|
87
|
3 January 2024
|
Henry Anthony Kwofie
|
Appeal Court Judge
|
Incumbent
|
Nene Amegatcher
|
|
88
|
3 January 2024
|
Yaw Darko Asare
|
Appeal Court Judge
|
Incumbent
|
Kwasi Anin-Yeboah
|
|
89
|
3 January 2024
|
Richard Adjei-Frimpong
|
Appeal Court Judge
|
Incumbent
|
Jones Dotse
|
|