Current Chief Justice
The current Chief Justice is Georgina Theodora Wood. The Parliament of Ghana approved her nomination on 1 June 2007 following the death of George Kingsley Acquah on March 25, 2007. She becomes Ghana's first female Chief Justice. Justice Francois Yaonansu Kpegah, the most senior of the Supreme Court judges acted as Chief Justice between March 2007 and June 2007. He handed over to Georgina Wood on 15 June 2007.
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