{"id":326032,"date":"2017-06-07T07:30:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T07:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=326032"},"modified":"2017-06-07T07:30:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T07:30:47","slug":"georgina-wood-bows-out-with-thanksgiving-service-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=326032","title":{"rendered":"Georgina Wood bows out with thanksgiving service [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a solemn and colourful ceremony at the Holy Trinity Cathedral as a thanksgiving service was observed in honour of Her Ladyship Georgina Theodora Wood, for a successful tenure \u00a0as Ghana’s first female Chief Justice.<\/p>\n

The ceremony brought together officials of Ghana\u2019s justice system, the clergy, politicians, family, friends and the general public to draw the curtain down on her 10-year tenure as Chief Justice.<\/p>\n

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The service was graced by notables in the judiciary and legislature like the new Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo; Justice Jones Dotse; the Speaker of Parliament, Professor Michael Ocquaye; the Minority Leader, Haruna Idrissu, among others.<\/p>\n

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After her official retirement\u00a0on June 8, 2017, Georgina Wood will become a member of the council of state, since the advisory council to the President must also include a former\u00a0Chief Justice, per Article 89(2)(a)(i) of the Constitution.<\/p>\n

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Georgina Wood was the first the female Chief Justice of Ghana, and the longest-serving Chief Justice, since her appointment in 2007 by former President Kufuor.<\/p>\n

Her appointment made her the most powerful woman in Ghana’s political history for a time, till the appointment of Justice Joyce Adeline Bamford-Addo as the first female Speaker of the 5th Parliament of Ghana in January 2009.<\/p>\n

Georgina Wood worked with the Ghana Police Service as a deputy superintendent and public prosecutor for three years before joining the Judicial Service as a District Magistrate in 1974.<\/p>\n

She rose through the Circuit and High Courts to become the presiding judge of the Appeal Court in\u00a01991,\u00a0and was then appointed to the Supreme Court on November 12, 2002.<\/p>\n

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By: Anass Seidu\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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