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# Served from Name Previous judicial office Served until Replacing Notes
1 1960 Kobina Arku Korsah Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court December 1963 Inaugural Chief Justice of Ghana 1957–1963
Dismissed by Kwame Nkrumah[1]
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[2] High Court Judge February 1966 Inaugural Chief Justice 1964–1966
Removed after coup d'état
5 July 1960[3] Augustus Molade Akiwumi[4] Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana (1958–1960) 1961 Inaugural Speaker of Parliament of Ghana
6 15 September 1961[5] Samuel Azu Crabbe High Court Judge 1959
1966 Supreme Court was replaced by the Appeals Court in 1966
6 1971[6] Appeal Court Judge 1972 Supreme Court replaced by the Appeals Court in 1972
Chief Justice 1973–1977
7 15 September 1961[5] Kofi Adumua Bossman High Court Judge 2 July 1956 – 1962 2 March 1964 Dismissed 2 March 1964 by Nkrumah[7]
Member of Constitutional Commission
1966–1967
8 1 September 1962[8] George Commey Mills-Odoi High Court Judge Jan 1960
Attorney General 1961–1962
February 1966
9 1 September 1962[8][9] Nii Amaa Ollennu High Court Judge 1966 Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana 1969–1972
10 1 September 1962[8] Robert Samuel Blay Private legal practitioner 2 March 1964 Dismissed 2 March 1964 by Nkrumah[7]
11 1 September 1962[8] Edward Akufo-Addo Private legal practitioner March 1964 Dismissed 2 March 1964 by Nkrumah.[7]
Reinstated by the NLC as an Appeals Court judge.
Chief Justice (1966–1970)
12 2 March 1964[10][11] Charles Acolatse High Court Judge 1965
13 2 March 1964[10][11] Alfred Akainyah High Court Judge 7 June 1966 William Van Lare
14 2 March 1964[10][12][11] Fred Apaloo High Court Judge 1966 Edward Akufo-Addo Supreme Court replaced by Appeals Court
14 1971[6] Appeal Court Judge 1972 Supreme Court replaced by Appeals Court
14 1980 Appeal Court Judge 1986 Chief Justice of Ghana 1977–1986
Chief Justice of Kenya 1993–1995
15 26 June 1964[13] William Bruce-Lyle High Court Judge 7 June 1966 Supreme Court Judge in Zambia 1976–1980.[14]
16 26 June 1964[13] Johnson Boateng Siriboe[15] 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 1972[16] Dismissed by NRC Military government.
17 1965 G. S. Lassey High Court Judge 1966 Charles Acolatse Supreme Court replaced by the Appeals Court by the then NLC government.
18 August 1970[17] E. A. L. Bannerman Legal adviser to Ghana Police and Ghana Airways (1967–70) 20 September 1972[16] Chief Justice 1970–1972
Sacked by NRC Military government.
19 August 1970[17] V. C. R. A. C. Crabbe[15] Interim Electoral Commissioner 1972
19 24 October 1980[18] Appeal Court Judge 1981
20 August 1970[17] Koi Larbi[19] Member of the Council of State 1972[16] Sacked by NRC Military government.
21 1971 Kwamena Bentsi-Enchill Dean of the Faculty of law, University of Zambia 30 September 1972[20]
22 1971[6] H. K. Prempeh High Court Judge (1960–1964)
Private legal practitioner
1972
23 1971[6] P. D. Anin Appeal Court Judge (1969–1970) 1972 Supreme Court replaced by Appeals Court
23 24 October 1980[18][21] Appeal Court Judge (1972–1980) July 1982[22] Retired voluntarily in July 1982
Later became a justice of the Appeal Court of the Gambia
24 24 October 1980[21] N. Y. B. Adade[23] Attorney General 1969–1971 20 February 1996
25 24 October 1980[18][21] Philip Archer[24] 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 21 February 1995 Chief of Justice 1991–1995
26 24 October 1980[18][21] E. N. P. Sowah Appeal Court Judge 1990[25] Chief Justice of Ghana 1986–1990
27 24 October 1980[21] J. N. K. Taylor[26] High Court Judge 24 March 1990[27]
28 September 1985[28][29][30] G. R. M. Francois[31] Appeal Court Judge 5 August 1994
29 1988[32][33] Isaac Wuaku[34] Appeal Court Judge 29 December 1992
30 1988[32][33] Kweku Etrew Amua-Sekyi[35] Appeal Court Judge 5 July 1996[36][37][38]
31 1988[32][33] Isaac K. Abban Appeal Court Judge 21 April 2001[39] 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[40]
33 20 February 1990[41][42] G. E. K. Aikins Attorney General of Ghana 2 September 1998[43]
34 1990 Edward Wiredu[44] Appeals Court Judge 2003 Chief Justice of Ghana

2001–2003

35 19 November 1991[45] Joyce Bamford-Addo Director of Public Prosecutions
2nd Deputy Speaker of the Consultative Assembly
October 2004[46] First female justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana[47] and first female Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana
36 19 November 1991[48] Charles Hayfron-Benjamin Private legal practice 4 April 1999
37 6 January 1993[49] Francis Kpegah Appeal Court Judge 4 December 2008[50]
38 6 January 1993 A. K. B. Ampiah[51] Appeal Court Judge 25 July 2003
39 22 February 1995 E. D. K. Adjabeng[51] Appeal Court Judge October 2002 Resigned in October 2002 on personal grounds
40 30 November 1995 George Kingsley Acquah[52] 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[53] Isaac K. Amuah Appeal Court Judge 19 August 1997 Died in office[54]
43 30 November 1995 William Atuguba State attorney 1 July 2018 23 years in Supreme Court
44 15 April 1999 John Debra Sapong[55] Appeal Court Judge 2 June 2000
45 15 April 1999 Josiah Ofori Boateng[55] Appeal Court Judge 4 January 2001
46 28 November 2000[56] Theodore Adzoe[57] Private legal practitioner 31 October 2008
47 28 November 2000[56][58] George Lamptey Appeal Court Judge 3 June 2002
48 19 March 2002[59] Kwame Afreh Appeal Court Judge September 2003[60]
49 12 November 2002[61] Georgina Wood Appeal Court Judge 1991–2002 7 June 2017 Chief Justice 2007–2017
50 12 November 2002[61] Samuel Glenn Baddoo Appeal Court Judge 3 March 2004
51 12 November 2002[61] Stephen Alan Brobbey Appeal Court Judge 23 May 2012
52 12 November 2002[61] Seth Twum Private legal practitioner 20 March 2007
53 21 May 2003[62][63] Anselmus Kludze[64] Professor of Law at the University of Ghana 12 March 2004[63]
54 16 September 2003[65][66] Samuel Date-Bah Special Adviser (Legal) at the Commonwealth Secretariat, London August 2014
55 14 May 2004[67] Tawia Modibo Ocran Professor of Law at the University of Ghana 27 October 2008[68] Died in office
56 15 October 2004[69] Richard Aninakwah[70] Appeal Court Judge 28 January 2008
57 15 October 2004[69] Julius Ansah[70] Appeal Court Judge 2020
58 15 October 2004[69] Felix Lartey[70] Chief Justice of the Gambia April 2005
59 15 March 2006[71] Sophia Adinyira Appeal Court Judge 30 July 2019[72] Judge on United Nations Appeals Tribunal 2009–2016
60 15 March 2006[73] Samuel Kwadwo Asiamah Appeal Court Judge 2009
61 11 June 2008[74] Paul Baffoe-Bonnie Appeal Court Judge Incumbent
62 11 June 2008[74] Jones Dotse Appeal Court Judge
Supreme Court Judge in the Gambia
Incumbent
63 11 June 2008[74] Anin Yeboah Justice of the Court of Appeal (2003–2008) Incumbent Chief Justice (2020 to date)[75][76]
64 11 June 2008[74] Rose Constance Owusu Appeal Court Judge June 2014[77]
65 31 October 2009[78] Vida Akoto-Bamfo Appeal Court Judge 14 February 2019[79] Tawia Modibo Ocran
66 31 October 2009[78] Benjamin Aryeetey Appeal Court Judge 2011 Theodore Adzoe
67 31 October 2009[78] Nasiru Gbadegbe Appeal Court Judge 8 December 2020[80][81] Francis Kpegah
68 11 November 2012[82] Joseph Akamba Appeal Court Judge 2016
69 11 November 2012[82] Anthony Benin Appeal Court Judge January 2020[83][84]
70 29 June 2015[85] Yaw Appau Appeal Court Judge August 2021
71 29 June 2015[85] Gabriel Pwamang Private legal practitioner Incumbent
72 13 July 2018[86] Nene Amegatcher Private legal practitioner Incumbent President of the Ghana Bar Association (2012–2016)
73 13 July 2018[86] Agnes Dordzie Appeal Court Judge 2 October 2022
74 13 July 2018[86] Nii Ashie Kotey Professor of Law at the University of Ghana Incumbent
75 13 July 2018[86] Samuel Marful-Sau Appeal Court Judge 10 August 2021 Died in office[87]
76 17 December 2019[88][89] Mariama Owusu[90] Appeal Court Judge Incumbent Sophia Akuffo President of Ghana chapter, International Association of Women Judges, 2014
77 17 December 2019[88][89] Avril Lovelace-Johnson[90] Appeal Court Judge Incumbent Sophia Adinyira
78 17 December 2019[88][89] Gertrude Tokornoo[90] Appeal Court Judge Incumbent Vida Akoto-Bamfo Vice-chair, e-Justice Committee
Judicial Training Institute Board member
79 22 May 2020[91] Issifu Omoro Tanko Amadu Appeal Court Judge[84] Incumbent Julius Ansah[92]
80 22 May 2020[93] Clemence Jackson Honyenuga Appeal Court Judge[84] 4 September 2022 Anthony Benin[92] Although officially retired on 4 September 2022, he has been granted some time by the Chief Justice (Anin Yeboah) to conclude a pending case.[94]
81 26 May 2020[95] Joy Henrietta Mensa-Bonsu Professor of Law at the University of Ghana[84] Incumbent
82 26 May 2020[95] Yonny Kulendi Private legal practitioner[84] Incumbent Nasiru Sulemana Gbadegbe[92]
83 28 December 2022[96] Barbara Frances Ackah-Yensu Appeal Court Judge[97] Incumbent Samuel Marful-Sau[97]
84 28 December 2022[96] Samuel Kwame Adibu Asiedu Appeal Court Judge[97] Incumbent Yaw Appau
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