Ayotunde Phillips

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Ayotunde Phillips
Chief Judge of Lagos State
In office
June 2012 – July 2014
Preceded byInumidun Akande
Succeeded byOluwafunmilayo Olajumoke Atilade
Personal details
Born(1949-07-26)26 July 1949
London

Ayotunde Phillips (born July 26, 1949) is a Nigerian Jurist and former Chief Judge of Lagos State.[1][2]

Early life[]

Ayotunde Phillips was born on July 26, 1949, in London, the first child of the late Justice James Oladipo Williams and Henrietta Aina Williams, a Lagos state-born judge.[3]She attended primary school in London before returning to Nigeria with her sibling, Oluwafunmilayo Olajumoke Atilade. She obtained the West Africa School Certificate Examination at Queen's College, Lagos before proceeding to the University of Lagos where she obtained a bachelor's degree in Law in June 1973. She completed the compulsory one year Youth Service at Enugu State Ministry of Justice and was Call to the bar in 1974.[4]

Law career[]

She started her career at Kehinde Sofola's Chambers on November 1975, a year after she was Call to the bar. She left the chamber on September 1976 to join the services of the Lagos State Development and Property Corporation as a legal Officer and rose to the position of legal adviser in 1990, the same year she got a transfer to the Ministry of Justice where she attained the rank of a High Court Judge in 1994.[5] On July 2012, she was appointed as the Chief Judge by Babatunde Fashola and after her retirement on June 2014, she was succeeded by Justice Oluwafunmilayo Olajumoke Atilade, her younger sister.[6][7][8]

References[]

  1. ^ "Moral issues raised over Lagos Chief Judge's book launch. - P.M. NEWS Nigeria". pmnewsnigeria.com.
  2. ^ "JUSTICE AYOTUNDE PHILLIP's son marries baby mama". Encomium Magazine.
  3. ^ "Justice Ayotunde Phillips Archives - The Nation". The Nation. Archived from the original on 2013-09-29. Retrieved 2015-04-24.
  4. ^ "And Philips steps in". The Punch - Nigeria's Most Widely Read Newspaper. Archived from the original on 2012-08-26.
  5. ^ Our Correspondent. "New Telegraph – Lagos CJ: Historic succession of two sisters". newtelegraphonline.com. Archived from the original on 2015-05-14.
  6. ^ "Atilade, fifth Lagos woman Chief Judge sworn-in". newsafricanow.com. Archived from the original on 2015-04-24. Retrieved 2015-04-24.
  7. ^ "Fashola Swears in Atilade as Lagos Chief Judge, Articles - THISDAY LIVE". thisdaylive.com. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02.
  8. ^ "Atilade makes history, succeeds sibling as acting Lagos Chief Judge". Vanguard News.
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