Chief Justice, Georgina Theodora Wood, who will turn 70 years old on June 8, 2017 has revealed that she will be retiring in May 2017.
Making the disclosure while addressing judges and lawyers at a special church service to open the 59th legal year, Justice Wood asked Ghanaians to pray for her for a successful end to her tenure.
She said, “Brothers and sisters please thank the Lord for me. Although it’s not ended, eight months more, these are rather when I need His [God’s] grace and support more. I thank each one of you, my colleagues on the Supreme Court who have faithfully worshipped with me year after year. … I thank you all for your continuing prayer and support.
“I know thousands of people – that one is not lost on me… – thousands of people have borne me before the Lord and this is the reason why the Lord, in answer to their prayer, sustained me and kept me till this day", she said, adding that, “one of the promises I believe in is what God says that if you give a cup of water to a prophet, you shall receive a prophet’s reward. So for, all those who have interceded for me, may the Lord meet each one of you at your point of need and may he bless you abundantly.â€
Appointed  in 2007 by during the second term of former President John Agyekum Kufuor, Justice Wood is the only woman to have served in the position.