Ayotunde Phillips
Ayotunde Phillips | |
|---|---|
| Chief Judge of Lagos State | |
| In office June 2012 – July 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Inumidun Akande |
| Succeeded by | Oluwafunmilayo Olajumoke Atilade |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 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 had her primary education in London before she returned to Nigeria with her sibling, Oluwafunmilayo Olajumoke Atilade.[4] She obtained the West Africa School Certificate Examination at Queen's College, Lagos before she proceeded to the University of Lagos where she obtained a bachelor's degree in Law on June 1973. She completed the compulsory one year Youth Service at Enugu State Ministry of Justice and was Call to the bar in 1974.[5]
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.[6] 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.[7][8][9]
References
- ^ "Moral issues raised over Lagos Chief Judge's book launch. - P.M. NEWS Nigeria". pmnewsnigeria.com.
- ^ "JUSTICE AYOTUNDE PHILLIP's son marries baby mama". Encomium Magazine.
- ^ "Justice Ayotunde Phillips Archives - The Nation". The Nation. Archived from the original on 2013-09-29. Retrieved 2015-04-24.
- ^ "Chief Justice Of Lagos Ayotunde Phillips Retires, Younger Sister Funmi Atilade To Replace Her". Nigerian Movies Nigerian News And Nigerian Entertainment News. Archived from the original on 2014-07-09.
- ^ "And Philips steps in". The Punch - Nigeria's Most Widely Read Newspaper. Archived from the original on 2012-08-26.
- ^ Our Correspondent. "New Telegraph – Lagos CJ: Historic succession of two sisters". newtelegraphonline.com. Archived from the original on 2015-05-14.
- ^ "Atilade, fifth Lagos woman Chief Judge sworn-in". newsafricanow.com. Archived from the original on 2015-04-24. Retrieved 2015-04-24.
- ^ "Fashola Swears in Atilade as Lagos Chief Judge, Articles - THISDAY LIVE". thisdaylive.com. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02.
- ^ "Atilade makes history, succeeds sibling as acting Lagos Chief Judge". Vanguard News.