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Name : Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie

Position : Chief Justice

Designation : Chief Justice

Paul Kwadwo Baffoe-Bonnie, born on 26 December 1956 is a Ghanaian Supreme Court Judge.

Paul Kwadwo Baffoe-Bonnie born on 26 December 1956 is a Ghanaian Supreme Court Judge. His parents are Opanyin Baffoe-Bonnie from Sewua in the Bosomtwe district and Ama Kyerewaa from Breman in Kumasi. He had his primary school education 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.

In law school, he was room-mates with NPP politician, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie and very good friends with former Chief Justice of Ghana, Kwasi Anin-Yeboah, he referred to the three of them forming "a trio of village law students".

Baffoe-Bonnie was called to the Bar in Ghana in 1983 and worked as a Circuit Court Judge at Kumasi. He served as High Court Judge at Duayaw Nkwanta. He was appointed an Appeals Court judge in 2006. He was appointed Supreme Court Judge by the President of Ghana, John Agyekum 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 is married to Patience Baffoe-Bonnie. Kwasi Sainti Baffoe-Bonnie, who owned Network Broadcasting Company Limited which run Radio Gold FM in Ghana, was his brother.

Baffoe-Bonnie was appointed to serve as acting Chief Justice of Ghana following the suspension of Gertrude Torkornoo on April 23.

Baffoe-Bonnie stepped in because of his seniority on the Supreme Court Bench.

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