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Kwasi Anin-Yeboah

Modern Constitutional and Supreme Court Judges of Africa and the Middle East

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Kwasi Anin-Yeboah (born 1953) is a Ghanaian judge who served as Chief Justice of Ghana from January 2020 to May 2023, the fourteenth to hold the office since independence and the first male Chief Justice in twelve years. He rose through the judiciary as a High Court justice from 2002, a Court of Appeal justice from 2003, and a Supreme Court justice from 2008, and as Chief Justice led the Supreme Court in dismissing John Dramani Mahama's petition challenging the 2020 presidential election result. He also chaired FIFA's Ethics Committee and taught civil procedure and the Ghana legal system at the Ghana School of Law.

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In December 2019, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo nominated Justice Anin-Yeboah as the Chief Justice of Ghana.
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