1. Joyce Bamford-Addo was the first woman to be elected to that position in the West African sub-region.
17 Facts About Joyce Bamford-Addo
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Joyce Bamford-Addo served in that role from 1991 till 2004 when she retired.
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Joyce Bamford-Addo subsequently attended Holy Child School, in Cape Coast, for her secondary education.
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Joyce Bamford-Addo proceeded to the United Kingdom for legal training.
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Joyce Bamford-Addo joined the Inner Temple to train under the apprenticeship system known as Inns of court and was called to the English Bar in 1961.
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Joyce Bamford-Addo returned to Ghana after working in the United Kingdom for a year.
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Joyce Bamford-Addo was called to the Ghana Bar in 1962.
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Joyce Bamford-Addo started working as an Assistant State Attorney in 1963 and promoted to State Attorney, then subsequently promoted to become a Senior State Attorney before becoming a Principal State Attorney.
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Joyce Bamford-Addo was appointed Director of Public Prosecutions in 1976, a position she held for 10 years.
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Joyce Bamford-Addo was appointed by Jerry Rawlings as a Supreme Court Judge in 1991, becoming the first female Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana.
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In 1991, during the late Provisional National Defence Council era, Joyce Bamford-Addo became the Second Deputy Speaker of Ghana's Consultative Assembly, set up to draft what became the 1992 constitution.
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Joyce Bamford-Addo became known across in Africa and across the globe joining other female speakers like Betty Boothroyd in the United Kingdom and Nancy Pelosi of the United States of America as first female speakers of their respective countries.
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Joyce Bamford-Addo is a member of the Ghana Bar Association, Catholic Lawyers Guild, International Federation of Women Lawyers and the Commonwealth Lawyers Association.
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Joyce Bamford-Addo served as the representative from Ghana at several UN Commission on the Status of women international conferences.
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Joyce Bamford-Addo was awarded the best woman of the year by the American Biographical Institute in 2000 due to her zeal and unfettered efforts towards women issues and women empowerment.
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Joyce Bamford-Addo is considered as a female pacesetter in law and legislation in Ghana and an inspiration and role model generally to Ghanaian women.
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Joyce Bamford-Addo is a devout Christian and worships as a Roman Catholic.