Georgina Theodora Wood

Georgina Theodora Wood ( born June 8, 1947 in Ghana as Georgina Theodora Lutterodt ) is reigning supreme judge in Ghana ( Chief Justice ). She followed the deceased on 25 March 2007 George Kingsley Acquah on 15 June 2007 in the office as the first woman in the history of Ghana after. She is the 12th person in this office in Ghana since the country's independence and also one of the youngest people ever to have held the post in Ghana.

Training

Wood attended Bishop 's Girls Schol, the Methodist school in Dodowa and moved to the Mmofraturo Girls School in Kumasi ( 1952-1960 ). You and attended Wesley Girls' High School in Cape Coast where she finished her education in 1966. After your graduation she studied for 6 months at the Ghana Police College and worked as Vice Superintendent in the Ghanaian Police Service for three years. However, Wood returned to the training and began at the University of Ghana in Legon, a suburb of Accra Study of Law and finished it with the LLB ( Hons. ) in 1970.

Career

She began to work in the judicial service of Ghana and worked as a Judge of the District Magistrate, later in the Circuit Court and High Court until 1991, the Court of Appeal ( Court of Appeal ) was appointed. Wood was in November 2002, a judge of the Supreme Court in Accra. In 2006, prior to their appointment as Chief Justice, she stood before the after their named Georgina Wood Committee. On June 1, the Ghanaian Parliament the appointment of Judge Wood agreed; on 15 June 2007, she assumed the office of Chief Justice.

Honors

Order of the Star of Ghana, July 7, 2007