Mahama nominates 7 Justices to Supreme Court

New Faces for Ghana’s Apex Court

President John Dramani Mahama has nominated seven Justices from the Court of Appeal for appointment to the Supreme Court. This significant judicial development was made public through a letter dated April 29, 2025, signed by Dr. Callistus Mahama, Secretary to the President, in accordance with Article 144(2) of the 1992 Constitution.

The nominees are:

Justice Sir Dennis Dominic Adjei

Justice Gbiel Simon Suurbaareh

Justice Senyo Dzamefe

Justice Kweku Tawiah Ackaah-Boafo

Justice Philip Bright Mensah

Justice Janapare Bartels-Kodwo

Justice Hafisata Amaleboba

If approved, their elevation would significantly reshape the composition of Ghana’s highest court.

Profile of Justice Dennis Dominic Adjei

Justice Dennis Dominic Adjei is a Justice of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. He is also a Justice of the Court of Appeal, Ghana. He is one of the nine-member Advisory Committee of the International Criminal Court. Justice Dennis Dominic Adjei was elected as the Inns of Court and Advanced Legal Institute of the University of London Senior Judges Fellow for Common Law jurisdictions for 2022-23 academic year. He is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Justice Dennis Dominic Adjei attended the University of Ghana from 1988-1991 and proceeded to the Ghana School of Law. He was called to the Ghana Bar in 1993. He obtained an Executive Master of Public Administration from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration. He further obtained a Master of Laws in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of London. He also holds a Master of Judicial Studies from the Duke Law School, Duke University, North Carolina, United States of America.

Justice Dennis Dominic Adjei is the Acting Director of the Judicial Training Institute of Ghana and held the substantive office from 2014–2019. He was the Dean, Faculty of Law, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, from January 2019 to August, 2020. The author is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. He is also an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Ghana School of Law, Accra, where he lectures on the Interpretation of Statutes and Deeds; and Land Law and Conveyancing. The author has written five textbooks, namely: Constitutional Law of Ghana—Evolution, Theory and Practice (2020); Modern Approach to the Law of Interpretation in Ghana (3rd Edition, Reprinted, 2021); Criminal Procedure and Practice in Ghana (3rd Edition, 2021); Land Law, Practice and Conveyancing in Ghana (3rd Edition, 2021); and Contemporary Criminal Law in Ghana (3rd Edition, 2021). The author has also co-authored a textbook entitled “The Alternative Dispute Resolution—A Ghanaian Perspective.” The author was Knighted by the Holy Father, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, into the Order of St Gregory the Great in 2005.