The World today, March 8, 2018, marks international women's day, and as part of the celebration of the efforts made by women in nation building below are profiles of some women in influential positions in Ghana.
Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo
Justice Sophia Akuffo has served as a justice of the Supreme Court for the past two decades and currently the Chief Justice of Ghana
She has been a member of the Governing Committee of the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute and Chairperson of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Task Force.
In January 2006, she was elected as one of the first judges of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights and was re-elected until 2014 when she served as the Vice-President. She is the immediate past President of the African Court on Human and People’s Rights.
She is on the Disciplinary Committee of the General Legal Council and has held membership of several organizations, including the Committee of the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute.
Her publications include The Application of Information & Communication Technology in the Judicial Process - The Ghanaian Experience, presented to the African Judicial Network Ghana (2002).
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Electoral Commission Chairperson Charlotte Osei
Charlotte Kesson-Smith Osei born 1 February 1969 is the current chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana. She became the first female to serve in this office since the independence of Ghana. Before her appointment she was the chairperson of the National Commission for Civic Education.
Charlotte Osei had her secondary education at the Ghana National College in Cape Coast. She proceeded to the University of Ghana where she obtained her LLB in 1992 and Ghana School of Law where she obtained and called to the bar in 1994. She also holds Master of Business Leadership (MBL) from the University of South Africa, Pretoria (2006), Master of Laws, (LLM), from Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Gloria Akuffo
Gloria Akuffo born 31 December 1954 is a Ghanaian female Legal Practitioner from Akropong-Akuapem in the Eastern Region and Shai Osudoku in the Greater Accra Region. She's a former Deputy Attorney General and currently the Attorney general designate for Ghana. She is Head of Litigation at Blay and Associates, one of the oldest and most prestigious law firms in Ghana.
Gloria Akuffo graduated in 1979 from the University of Ghana with a B.A. (Hons) in Law and Political Science. She became a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature of Ghana, enrolling at the Ghana Bar Association in 1982. She was a founding partner in a private legal firm, Owusu-Yeboa, Akuffo & Associates, in Accra.
Rebecca Akufo-Addo
Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akufo-Addo was born on the 12th of March, 1951 to Justice Jacob Hackenburg Griffiths-Randolph, speaker of Parliament in the Third Republic of Ghana and Frances Phillipina Griffiths-Randolph (nee Mann).
She attended the Achimota Primary School and continued at the Wesley Grammar School in Accra and then to the Government Secretarial School where she qualified as a Secretary.
She worked at the Merchant Bank in Ghana before relocating to the United Kingdom. She qualified as a legal secretary in the United Kingdom and worked for Clifford Chance and Ashurst Morris Crisp both multinational law firms.
She is married to the President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and they have five daughters and five grandchildren.
Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akufo-Addo and her husband are both staunch members of the Accra Ridge Church and are committed Christians.
Samira Bawumia
Samira Bawumia is a Ghanaian politician and the Second Lady of the Republic of Ghana. She is married to the Vice President of Ghana, Mahamudu Bawumia. Samira started her early education at the Answarudeen Islamic School at Fadama in Accra, before continuing to the Akosombo International School (AIS) and then to Mfantsiman Secondary School at Saltpond in the Central Region.
At the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), she studied BA Social Science in Law and Sociology and Technology. At the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Relations (GIMPA), she was adjudged the Best Student in Master of Business Administration (MBA).
She is a multi-lingual fluent in Ewe, Ga, Twi, Fanti and Mamprusi.
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