Education: Profile Of The Newly Chief Justice Appointed By Nana Addo; From SHS To Tertiary

Educational Career Of The New Chief Justice You Musk Know.

Education helps to transform life’s of individuals. Our children must educated as we share with you the educational profile (Career) of  Gertrude Torkornoo who has been appointed by Nana Addo as the new Chief Justice. Chief Justice Gertrude hails from Winneba in the Central Region of Ghana. She was born on 11 September 1962 in Cape Coast.

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She attended Wesley Girls’ High School where she obtained her ordinary level certificate and Achimota School for her advanced level certificate.

She is an alumni of the University of Ghana and graduated from the Ghana School of Law in 1986.

In 2001 she obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in International Law and Organization from the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), part of Erasmus University in the Netherlands.

In 2011, she graduated from Golden Gate University, USA with an LLM in Intellectual Property Law.

Before joining Fugar & Co., a law firm in Accra as an associate, Justice Torkornoo worked as a volunteer at the FIDA Legal Aid Service and did an internship with Nabarro Nathanson in London.

She returned to the firm (Fugar & Co.) in 1994 to become a director.

In January 1997, she co-founded Sozo Law Consult where she worked as Managing Partner until 14 May 2004 when she was appointed a Justice of the High Court of Ghana.

She worked as a High Court judge until October 2012 when she was elevated to the Court of Appeal.

Justice Torkornoo was nominated to the Supreme Court of Ghana in November 2019.

She was sworn into office on 17 December 2019.