Gertrude Torkornoo, a Justice of the Supreme Court, has been nominated by President Akufo-Addo as the new Chief Justice of the republic.
Her nomination comes following the retirement of Justice Kwasi Anim Yeboah who left service on May 24, 2023 after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 70 for justices of the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.
Should Parliament approve her nomination, Gertrude Torkornoo will become the third Chief Justice in the country’s history after Georgina Theodore and Sophia Akuffo.
In a letter to the Council of State, President Akufo-Addo said Justice Torkornoo who has been “on the Supreme Court for the last four (4) and has been a member of the Judiciary for the last nineteen (19) years is duly qualified and eminently fit to discharge the functions of Chief Justice.”
Gertrude Torkornoo has been on the bench in Ghana since 2004 and was appointed a Supreme Court judge in 2019.
She was one of the first Justices of the Commercial Division of the High Court and has been active in the core reform agenda and activities of the Judiciary and Judicial Service of Ghana since 2005.
Gertrude Torkornoo hails from Winneba in the Central Region of Ghana where she attended Wesley Girls’ High School, obtaining her ordinary level certificate before getting admission at the Achimota School for her advanced level certificate.
She is an alumna of the University of Ghana and graduated from the Ghana School of Law in 1986.
