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Volta Hall (the university's female-only hall of residence). It is the only all-female hall on campus known for their discipline and neatness. The hall has churned out many respectable women such as the first female Chief Justice Georgina Theodora Woode. Akuafo Hall The word "akuafo" is an Akan word which means farmers. For this reason the hall ...
Ghana School of Law. Georgina Theodora Wood JSC OSG (née Lutterodt; born 8 June 1947) is a Ghanaian judge and also a former police prosecution officer. She was the Chief Justice of Ghana and the first woman to occupy that position. [1][2] She retired in 2017 after five decades of service to the state.
Judge. Henrietta Joy Abena Nyarko Mensa-Bonsu, JSC, FGA (born 29 October 1957) is a Supreme Court Judge of the Republic of Ghana. [2] She was nominated by president Nana Akufo-Addo. [3][4][5] She is the 5th female member of the Court. [6][7] Prior to her appointment to the Supreme Court, she was a Ghanaian law professor who served as a member ...
Sophia Akuffo. Sophia Abena Boafoa Akuffo JSC (born 20 December 1949) was the Chief Justice of Ghana from 19 June 2017 until 20 December 2019. She had been a Judge in the Supreme Court of Ghana since 1995.
Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong (born in Tema), is a Ghanaian female legal practitioner and a former Attorney General of Ghana and Minister for Justice of Ghana. [1] She was appointed by President Mahama in 2013. [2] She is the second woman to hold this office in Ghana, the first being Mrs. Betty Mould-Iddrisu. Her tenure as Attorney General of ...
Profession. Judge. Lawyer. Annie Ruth Jiagge, GM (née Baëta; 7 October 1918 – 12 June 1996), also known as Annie Baëta Jiagge, was a Ghanaian lawyer, judge and women's rights activist. She was the first woman in Ghana and the Commonwealth of Nations to become a judge. [1] She was a principal drafter of the Declaration on the Elimination of ...
Mary Chinery-Hesse, FAAS, OSG, née Blay (born 29 October 1938) [1] is an international civil servant and diplomat serving as the first woman Chancellor of the University of Ghana, inducted on 1 August 2018. [2] She was the first female Deputy Director-General of the International Labour Organization [3][4][5][6][7]
Accra, Ghana. Alma mater. University of Ghana. Profession. Lawyer. Gloria Akuffo (born 31 December 1954) is a Ghanaian lawyer and politician who served as the Attorney General of Ghana and Minister for Justice from 2017 until 2021. [1][2][3] She also served as Deputy Attorney General and Aviation Minister in the John Kuffuor administration. [4]