By Francis Kobena Tandoh
Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama on Monday swore into office as the Chief Justice (CJ) of the Republic Paul Baffoe-Bonnie to succeed the dismissed CJ, Gertrude Araba Esaaba Sackey Torkornoo.
He was nominated for the role of a substantive Chief Justice on September 21, 2025, after having served in an acting position.
Find the profile of the new Ghanaian Chief Justice below:
Paul Kwadwo Baffoe-Bonnie was born on 26 December 1956 to Opanyin Baffoe-Bonnie from Sewua in the Bosomtwe district of the Ashanti Region and Ama Kyerewaa from Breman in Kumasi, in the same region.
His primary school education was at the Goaso Local Authority primary and middle schools, completing his Middle School Leaving Certificate examinations in the late 1960s.
He attended Konongo Odumase Secondary School, where he obtained his GCE Ordinary Level and GCE Advanced Level certificates from 1969 to 1976. He then attended the University of Ghana and later the Ghana Law School. [3]
In law school, he was roommates with New Patriotic Party (NPP) politician, the late Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, popularly known as “Sir John,” and very good friends with former Chief Justice of Ghana, Kwasi Anin-Yeboah; he referred to the three of them as forming “a trio of village law students.”
Baffoe-Bonnie was called to the Bar in Ghana in 1983. He worked as a Circuit Court Judge at Kumasi. He served as a High Court Judge at Duayaw Nkwanta. He was appointed an Appeals Court judge in 2006 during the tenure of President John Agyekum Kufuor. He was appointed a Supreme Court Judge by President Kufuor in June 2008.
In 2013, Baffoe-Bonnie was on the panel of Supreme Court judges who ruled against a petition brought before it where the New Patriotic Party asked for about four million votes to be scrapped for alleged tampering in the 2012 Ghanaian general election.
Baffoe-Bonnie was appointed to serve as acting Chief Justice of Ghana by President John Dramani Mahama following the suspension of Gertrude Torkornoo on April 23.
He was made to step in because of his seniority on the Supreme Court Bench. His appointment and vetting, which the parliament of Ghana is constitutionally mandated to do, was challenged by the removed chief justice on 16th October 2025, alleging that her removal was unconstitutional and that the findings of the committee were “irrational, absurd, and pervers in the Wednesbury sense.”
The new Chief Justice of the Republic is married to Patience Baffoe-Bonnie. Kwasi Sainti Baffoe-Bonnie. Enditem
Source: Ghana Eye Report
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