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The current Attorney General is Dominic Akuritinga Ayine. He was appointed by President John Mahama in 2025. [2] Betty Mould-Iddrisu was the first woman to be appointed as Attorney-General in Ghana. She was appointed by President John Atta Mills and was in office between 2009 and 2011. [3]
He was called to the English bar in 1954. He returned to Ghana after his research studies in 1956 to enter into private legal practice. In 1962 he joined the University of Ghana as a research fellow in history. This stint ended in 1966 when he went back into private practice. [1] He was president of the Ghana Bar Association in 1970–1971.
Archibald Lartey Djabatey [1] was a Ghanaian lawyer and former Attorney General of Ghana. Djabatey hailed from Odumase Krobo in the Eastern Region of Ghana. He received his bachelor of laws degree from the University of London and was called to the Ghanaian Bar in 1964. Following his call to the bar, he subsequently became a State Attorney and ...
The Attorney General is responsible for any civil cases and acts as the defendant on behalf of Ghana. The Ministry of Justice was founded in 1951 as a result of the recommendations made by the Lidbury Commission whereas the position of Attorney General originated in 1877.
First female Attorney General of Ghana Betty Nah-Akuyea Mould-Iddrisu (born 22 March 1953 [ 1 ] [ 2 ] ) is a Ghanaian lawyer and politician . A member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), she was Minister for Education in Ghana from 2011 to 2012, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] after serving as Attorney General and Minister for Justice from 2009 to 2011.
Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong (born in Tema), is a Ghanaian female legal practitioner, a former Attorney General of Ghana and Minister for Justice. [1] She was appointed by President Mahama in 2013. [2] She is the second woman to hold this office in Ghana, the first being Betty Mould-Iddrisu. Her tenure as attorney general ended on 6 January 2017.
Tanoh was born on 30 August 1925 at Agona Nsaba in the Central Region of Ghana. [1] He had his early education at the Presbyterian Primary School at Agona Nsaba from 1931 to 1933 and at the Presbyterian Primary School at Agona Nyakrom from 1934 to 1936. [1]
His lecturers included Professor Ofosu Amaah and Dr. Obed Asamoah, a former foreign minister and Attorney General of Ghana. [5] He then won a post-graduate scholarship from the University of Ghana to Oxford University where he again obtained first class honours in Bachelor of Civil Law which is equivalent to a master's degree at other British ...