Julius Sarkodee-Addo

Justice Julius Sarkodee-Adoo JSC (8 September 1908 – January 1972)^[1]^[2] was the second Chief Justice of Ghana during the First Republic.

He studied law at King's College London, was admitted to Inner Temple in 1928, and was called to the Bar in 1932. He replaced the first native Ghanaian chief justice, Sir Kobina Arku Korsah in 1964.^[3] He was removed after the coup d'état of 24 February 1966 by the military National Liberation Council government which was formed after the overthrow of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.

Sarkodee-Adoo died in January 1972 at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra.

References

^ Ghana Year Book, 1963, "SARKODEE-ADOO, JULIUS: Judge, Supreme Court of Ghana, b. Sept. 8, 1908. Edu: Methodist Primary School. Koforidua, Wesleyan Boys' High School, Freetown, Sierra Leone, and King's College, University of London."
^ West Africa, Issues 2848–2872. Afrimedia International. 1972. p. 51.
^ "List of Chief Justices". Judicial Service of Ghana. Archived from the original on 3 April 2007. Retrieved 7 April 2007.

v t e Chief justices of Ghana
Nkrumah era	Sir Kobina Arku Korsah J. Sarkodee-Addo
Military rule	Edward Akufo-Addo^† Edmund A.L. Bannerman Samuel Azu Crabbe Fred Apaloo^† E. N. P. Sowah
Democratic era	Philip Edward Archer^† Isaac Kobina Abban Edward Kwame Wiredu George Kingsley Acquah Georgina Wood Sophia Akuffo Anin Yeboah Gertrude Torkornoo
^† served in both military and democratic eras