Nancy Makokha Baraza

Nancy Baraza is a Kenyan lawyer who was appointed the first Deputy Chief Justice of Kenya and thus to the First Vice President of the Supreme Court of Kenya, 2011.

Life

At the time of her appointment as Vice- President of the Supreme Court Nancy Baraza could look back on thirty years of legal practice. She was the temporary chairman of the Federation of Women Lawyers of Kenya and Yash Pal Ghai 's a member of the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission, which made ​​important preliminary to the adopted in the constitutional referendum in 2010 draft constitution. In 2008 she became a member of the Kenya Law Reform Commission in 2011 and member of the board de Media Council of Kenya 's Ethics and Complaints commission. On 14 May 2011, she was by the Judicial Service Commission as Duputy Chief Justice nominated. Was debated on the theses of her doctoral thesis, which deals with the rights of homosexuals and she worked at the time of nomination. After the confirmation by President Mwai Kibaki and the Parliament put Baraza 29 August 2011 their oath of office as Deputy Chief Justice from.

Threat affair

4 January 2012 allegations were known, after which they had threatened an employee of the security agency when entering a shopping center after he had insisted that she too had to undergo the general studies.