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Rohana Yusuf

Modern Constitutional and Supreme Court Judges of Asia and Oceania

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Rohana binti Yusuf, born May 9, 1956, is a Malaysian judge who earned a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Malaya in 1980 before working as an assistant parliamentary draftsman and later senior federal counsel in the Attorney General's Chambers and as legal adviser to the Ministry of Defence. She was appointed a Judicial Commissioner of the High Court of Malaya in 2005, became a full High Court judge in 2007, moved to the Court of Appeal in 2013 and the Federal Court in 2018, and on December 5, 2019, became the eleventh President of the Court of Appeal of Malaysia, the first woman to hold that office since it was created in 1994, retiring in November 2022 upon reaching the mandatory retirement age.

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