{"id":318614,"date":"2017-05-12T14:53:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T14:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=318614"},"modified":"2017-05-12T14:53:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T14:53:50","slug":"your-service-was-extraordinary-nana-addo-extols-georgina-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/05\/your-service-was-extraordinary-nana-addo-extols-georgina-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Your service was extraordinary – Nana Addo extols Georgina Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"
President Nana Akufo-Addo had glowing words for the Chief Justice Georgina Theodora Wood, as he nominated her successor,\u00a0Sophia Akuffo <\/a><\/strong><\/span>on Friday.<\/p>\n “Her career has been extraordinary and I pay warm tribute to her distinguished service to our nation and I wish her a well-earned retirement even though her public service will not be over as a place on the Council of State awaits her,\u201d President Akufo-Addo said.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n After her retirement on 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 The council, when constituted<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in February 2017, had no former Chief Justice representative as there was no living former Chief Justice at the time.<\/p>\n Georgina Wood was the first the female Chief Justice of Ghana, and she becomes the longest-serving Chief Justice, since her appointment in 2007.<\/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 <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Since taking office, Georgina Wood has sworn-in three persons as President; the late John Evans Atta-Mills, John Dramani Mahama and Nana Akufo-Addo.<\/p>\n