Julie Manning
Julie Manning | |
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High Court judge | |
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Julie Catherine Manning was a Tanzanian lawyer, judge and politician. The first Tanzanian woman to study law, she was a High Court judge before serving as Minister of Justice from 1975 to 1983.
Life[]
In 1963 Julie Manning became the first woman to study law at the University of East Africa. She later worked as a law draughtswoman in the Attorney General's Chamber.[1] In 1973 she was appointed judge of the High Court of Tanzania, making her the first African woman High Court judge in east or central Africa.[2] In 1975 she was appointed Minister of Justice, making her one of the first two women to serve in a Tanzanian cabinet.[3]
After Joseph Warioba succeeded Manning as Justice Minister in 1983, she worked as a counsel at the Tanzanian embassy Ottawa, Canada
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- Tanzanian lawyers
- Tanzanian judges
- Tanzanian politicians
- Women judges
- Tanzanian women lawyers
- 20th-century Tanzanian women politicians
- Tanzanian people of European descent